Jurors at the Las Vegas murder trial of Duane "Keffe D" Davis were shown footage from a BET documentary in which he described the 1996 shooting of Tupac Shakur, an account that closely mirrors the confession he gave police during a secret 2008 interview. Prosecutors argue that by taking part in the documentary and later publishing a memoir, Davis forfeited the legal protections tied to that 2008 "queen for a day" interview, which had barred prosecutors from using his statements against him directly, allowing them to bring the murder charge he now faces.

In the documentary clip, Davis said he was riding in a car with his nephew, Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson, and two other men when they spotted Shakur riding with Death Row Records' Suge Knight, and that a gun was passed to the backseat before someone opened fire; he stopped short of directly naming the shooter on camera, though in his earlier 2008 police interview he said Anderson fired the weapon. Davis now claims he lied to police in 2008 for leverage on unrelated drug charges and fabricated the story again for the documentary because he was paid, an amount the show's director estimated at $10,000 to $20,000. Prosecutors say the corroborating public statements, made after he learned he had cancer and said he had "nothing else to lose," undermine his claim of fabrication.