The defense attorney who represented Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis in his trial for the 1996 murder of 2Pac has reportedly died.
As reported by FOX5 , defense attorney Michael Sanft, who was the lead trial attorney at SOS Injury Lawyers, died on Thursday (Nov. 5) in Las Vegas. The cause of death has not been publicly revealed. He represented Davis pro bono during his trial for the murder of Pac, for which he was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to 40 years to life in prison.
In August, the jury in the trial found Davis responsible for the drive-by shooting that took the legendary West Coast rapper’s life in Las Vegas. Prosecutors argued that he wasn’t the person who fired the gun into the vehicle in which Pac was riding, but directed the triggerman to do so.
In the years following the shooting, Davis appeared to claim responsibility for the shooting in several interviews and a memoir.…