Lil Durk’s federal murder-for-hire trial will start on April 21.
The rapper, actual title Durk Banks, appeared in courtroom final week the place a choose granted the defendants’ request to delay the trial by, at the very least, three months. The defendants prompt shifting the beginning date from Jan. 20 to May 4, citing the necessity for added time to evaluation discovery in trial preparation.
“We would have been ready to try the case (in two weeks), but the court appropriately decided that with everybody together, we still aren’t there yet,” Drew Findling, considered one of Durk’s attorneys, advised Rolling Stone reporter Nancy Dillon. “It’s a complex case. These are the stepping stones towards a trial.”
Durk was arrested in Oct. 2024 on a murder-for-hire allegation after 5 individuals, allegedly tied to the rapper’s Only the Family, had been accused of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire in reference to the 2022 capturing of Quando Rondo.
The alleged hit is believed to be in retaliation for the homicide of King Von, which was carried out by Timothy “Lul Timm” Leeks, an affiliate of Rondo.
While Rondo was not injured within the capturing, his 24-year-old cousin Saviay’a Robinson was killed.
Durk has remained behind bars since his arrest, and in accordance with his attorneys, the Chicago native has spent the previous 4 months in solitary confinement after he was allegedly discovered “in possession of an unauthorized Apple Watch.” His lawyer Christy O’ Connor alleges the rapper has not been given entry to commissary, and is just allowed one telephone name every month, with out in-person visits.
His attorneys filed a movement final week requesting a standing listening to, claiming Durk has been held “without process,” a violation of federal laws and probably, the Eighth Amendment.