New Delhi, Aug. 14 -- LAS VEGAS - William Lesane was 12 years old when Tupac Shakur was shot. Now, standing outside a Clark County courtroom on a Monday morning in August, the middle-aged man told reporters that the trial ahead represented "30 years of trauma, anger, depression, sadness, grief, mourning." The man accused of orchestrating that night, Duane "Keffe D" Davis, sat inside at the defense table in a blue shirt and tie, watching a jury file into the box that may determine the rest of his life.

The murder trial of Davis, 61, opened this week in Las Vegas, finally bringing a suspect before a jury in one of American pop culture's most enduring unsolved crimes. Shakur was shot in a drive-by attack on the Las Vegas Strip on the night ...