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\n\tThe man charged with murder for his alleged role in the 1996 shooting death of hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur<\/a> lost his bid to suppress key evidence that he argued was obtained through an unlawful nighttime search. A judge denied the request at a Tuesday hearing, a courtroom source confirms to Rolling Stone<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tDuane \u201cKeffe D\u201d Davis and his lawyers, William Brown and Robert Draskovich, had argued in court filings that investigators presented a \u201cmisleading portrait\u201d of Davis in their search warrant application presented to a magistrate judge. They said the affidavit unfairly depicted Davis as a potentially armed and dangerous narcotics dealer who might provoke a standoff with police, putting his neighbors at risk.<\/p>\n \n\tThe defense lawyers argued in filings obtained by Rolling Stone<\/em> that Davis was a retired grandfather and cancer survivor who \u201ccooperated politely\u201d when a detective knocked on his door during daylight hours before the July 2023 search and his subsequent arrest in September 2023<\/a>. At the time, the defense lawyers said, Davis was living a quiet life with his wife in a Las Vegas suburb and simply asked to have a lawyer present before speaking with police.<\/p>\n \n\tThe lawyers said police made \u201cstrategic omissions\u201d when they later portrayed Davis as a \u201cmultiple-time convicted felon\u201d with a gun arrest, without noting that his drug convictions were 25 years old and that his gun arrest, eight years earlier, did not result in a conviction. According to the lawyers, Davis left the drug trade in 2008 and had a decade of lawful employment afterward, working as an oil refinery inspector. The image presented to secure the warrant \u201cbore little resemblance to reality,\u201d the lawyers argued.<\/p>\n \n\tIn their search warrant application, excerpted in court filings obtained by Rolling Stone<\/em>, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Det. Clifford Mogg said officers sought to search Davis\u2019s home at night because \u201cthe cover of darkness will allow officers to surround and secure the residence.\u201d He added that if Davis or others inside tried to \u201cbarricade themselves,\u201d darkness would enable officers to evacuate nearby homes \u201cwith the least exposure to residents.\u201d (Davis and his lawyers claimed the safety rationale didn\u2019t make sense because neighbors were more likely to be home at night.)<\/p>\n