On October 24, Lil Durk was arrested on federal charges, stating that he paid for the 2022 revenge murder of rapper Quando Rondo for his longtime friend, King Von.
On November 14, he officially entered his “not guilty” plea on all three charges for firearms, conspiracy, and murder-for-hire. However, the case has gotten even more chaotic since he filed his response.
In December, the rapper was linked to a second murder-for-hire plot against Stephon Mack (allegedly the leader of a faction of the Gangster Disciples called Smashville and potentially connected to Lil Durk’s brother’s 2021 murder). Despite all the new updates, it now looks like Durk will have to wait a while for his day in court.
On New Year’s Eve, the rapper’s team agreed to push the proceedings to October 14 instead of their original date of January 7. Court documents revealed that the government is putting together a discovery including “approximately 230 GB of digital evidence” and about “20,000 pages of reports concerning murder and other violent acts, photographs, witness statements, and medical documents.”
The prosecutors also stated that due to the number of defendants involved, it was “unreasonable to expect adequate preparation for pretrial proceedings or for the trial itself,” and that’s why the trial has been delayed by several months.
Not everyone is pleased with this update. Durk’s co-defendant, Asa “Boogie” Houston, who was supposed to appear in court on January 14, is pushing back. Meanwhile, Deandre Dontrell Wilson (one of the five OTF members arrested in October) is seeking a “pre-plea sentence report” (which gives the “court important background information about the defendant, in order to provide context for his case so that a fair and appropriate sentence may be ordered by the court.”)
Durk was denied bond in December after his attorneys offered $2.3 million in house equity, $1 million in cash from Sony Music, and for him to be under 24-hour surveillance.
Judge Patricia Donahue said there wasn’t a way to “reasonably assure the safety of the community” and that the rapper had “a significant amount of control over others.”
Despite his legal issues, his delayed album Deep Thoughts is expected to drop on January 31, and fans are hoping and praying that the rapper can make it back outside.