A female judge has approved Lil Durk‘s motion for bond reconsideration. Durk’s lawyers argued that federal prosecutors submitted fan videos that included edits not created by the drill rapper.
Lil Durk offered a $1 million cash bond and home confinement in Georgia.
The news comes just days after Durk’s baby mama, India Royale was seen feeling up a man’s thigh at a private party.
Video of the apparent infidelity went viral online. Sources say India had promised Durk that she would be his ride-or-die while he was in jail in California.
Lil Durk's baby mama, India, was allegedly seen at a party with her hand on another man’s leg???
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Durk’s lawyer filed a motion to dismiss the murder-for-hire charges or reconsider the bond.
Judge Patricia Donahue of the U.S. District Court of Central California declined to dismiss the charges, but she approved the motion for a hearing to reconsider giving him bond. The hearing is set for May 8 at 9:30 a.m.
Lil Durk was charged in 2024 with the murder-for-hire hit on aspiring rapper Quando Rondo that resulted in the death of his cousin, Lul Pab, on August 19, 2022. Rondo was not harmed.
Federal prosecutors allege that Durk hired the hitmen in Chicago and flew them to California to carry out the hit in retaliation for the murder of drill rapper King Von.
Rondo was involved in a fistfight with King Von when Von was fatally shot by Rondo’s gang associate in Atlanta in November 2020.
The feds cited lyrics from Lil Durk’s verse on Babyface Ray’s song “Wonderful Wayne & Jackie Boy” as evidence in the case. The song was released in December 2022, three months after the Los Angeles shooting.
“The government told the grand jury that Mr. Banks, through specific lyrics in his music, celebrated and profited from a revenge murder that he had ordered,” David Findling, Durk’s lawyer, wrote. “That claim is demonstrably false”, because the song was written before Lul Pab was killed.
Additionally, Durk’s lawyer disputed fan videos submitted by the prosecution. Findling said “fan edits” of a video featured Rondo’s voice were not in the original song.
“Mr. Banks did not create these videos, and the government has failed to show any nexus between these manufactured video clips and Mr. Banks,” Findling said. “The internet users who posted the videos … are apparent ‘fan pages’ maintained by people with no affiliation to Mr. Banks.”
But the feds have more evidence on Mr. Durk. The hotel rooms and rental cars for the hitmen were allegedly paid for by credit cards linked to Durk’s company.
The feds also have text messages from Durk to one of his associates telling him not to pay for the hotel room with Durk’s credit card. But the associate didn’t listen.
On a positive note, Durk’s lawyer said the drill rapper converted 13 inmates to Islam in a California jail.
