Lil Durk might get another shot at freedom through bond in his federal murder-for-hire case. According to court docs seen by Complex, a hearing to decide if Durk can leave jail before his trial is scheduled for May 8.
Durk’s legal team recently tried to get his entire case thrown out by arguing it’s wrongly based on YouTube videos from “fan pages.”
In several motions filed on Apr. 19, Durk’s attorneys highlighted that prosecutors used lyrics from Durk’s collaboration with BabyFace Ray, “Wonderful Wayne and Jackie Boy,” as evidence he “sought to commercialize” the murder of Quando Rondo’s cousin, Saviay’a Robinson.
Durk had previously explained that the song’s lyrics were written months before Robinson’s death, making it impossible for him to have been referencing it in his verse.
Back in January, prosecutors claimed there was a version of the song containing TMZ footage related to Robinson’s murder. One of the recent legal filings by his team argued this music video wasn’t created by the rapper or posted by him.
“The internet users who posted the videos…are apparent ‘fan pages’ maintained by people with no affiliation to Mr. Banks or Only the Family, Inc,” they wrote in a filing. “It is unfair, misleading, and just flat-out wrong for the government to suggest that Mr. Banks is responsible for these video/audio edits or that they evidence his purported commercialization of a murder that he supposedly ordered.”
With this argument, Durk’s legal team asked either for his release on a bond package totaling over $2 million in cash and real estate equity or for the whole indictment to be dismissed.
While locked up, Durk is spreading Islam, according to his father Dontay “Big Durk” Banks.
“He definitely building, he was telling me when he came in there, there was like four Muslims on the block,” Banks said during a Breakfast Club interview. “He said now it’s 17 Muslims on the block, so he in there—converting. So that’s a good thing so he in there you know keeping it going keeping the work going.”
