Lil Durk may get another chance at freedom via bond in his federal murder-for-hire case. According to court documents obtained by Complex, a hearing to determine if Durk can be released from jail ahead of his trial is set to occur on May 8.
Durk’s attorneys recently tried to get his case dismissed altogether by claiming that it’s mistakenly based on YouTube videos from “fan pages.”
In multiple motions filed on Apr. 19, Durk’s lawyers pointed out that the prosecutors used lyrics from Durk’s collab with BabyFace Ray, “Wonderful Wayne and Jackie Boy,” as evidence that he “sought to commercialize” the murder of Quando Rondo’s cousin, Saviay’a Robinson.
Durk had explained previously that the song’s lyrics were written months before Robinson’s death, so there was no way he would have been discussing it in his verse.
Back in January, the government claimed there was a version of the song that contained TMZ footage related to Robinson’s murder. One of the recent legal motions filed by his team claimed that 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 claim, Durk’s legal team requested that he either be released for a bond package totaling a little over $2 million in cash and real estate equity or for the indictment to be dismissed altogether.
While he’s behind bars though, Durk is using his time to spread the word of 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,” said Banks during an interview with the Breakfast Club. “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.”
