{"id":5713,"date":"2025-05-09T04:35:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T04:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/lil-durk-denied-jail-release-after-lyrics-deleted-from-indictment\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T04:35:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T04:35:04","slug":"lil-durk-denied-jail-release-after-lyrics-deleted-from-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/lil-durk-denied-jail-release-after-lyrics-deleted-from-indictment\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Durk Denied Jail Release After Lyrics Deleted from Indictment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tA<\/span> federal judge has denied Lil Durk\u2019s latest request to be released from jail as he awaits trial on murder-for-hire charges, unswayed by the argument of the Chicago drill star\u2019s attorney that his circumstances have dramatically changed following the removal of rap lyrics from his indictment.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a court order on Thursday (May 8), Magistrate Judge Patricia Donahue said Durk (Durk Banks) must remain behind bars after being charged with ordering a 2022 attack on rival rapper Quando Rondo that left another man dead.<\/p>\n

\n\tDurk was arrested last year on an indictment that cited lyrics from his song \u201cWonderful Wayne & Jackie Boy,\u201d in which he raps: \u201cTold me they got an addy (go, go)\/ Got location (go, go)\/ Green light (go, go, go, go, go). Look on the news and see your son\/You screamin\u2019, \u2018No, no\u2019 (pu\u2013y).\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLos Angeles federal prosecutors originally claimed that these lyrics referenced the Rondo shooting. But a recently updated indictment removed the lyrics, as well as other allegations about a bounty payment, after Durk\u2019s legal team pointed out that \u201cWonderful Wayne\u201d was written and recorded seven months before the incident.<\/p>\n

\n\tDurk\u2019s attorney, Drew Findling<\/strong>, subsequently argued that the rapper deserves to be free until his Oct. 14 trial start date because the \u201cwatered-down new indictment\u201d leaves just a \u201cweak patchwork of unsupported and non-specific allegations against Mr. Banks.\u201d But Judge Donahue is keeping Durk in jail, at least for now. The Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/em> reports that when issuing her decision in court Thursday, the judge cited a report that Durk has been using other inmates\u2019 jailhouse phone calls, thereby showing a \u201cdisrespect for the rules.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFindling tells Billboard<\/em> that his team will appeal this latest bail denial to District Judge Michael Fitzgerald, who has the power to reverse the magistrate judge\u2019s ruling. The defense lawyer emphasizes that the new indictment\u2019s only specific allegation against Durk is a single \u201cunexplained, out of context text message\u201d in which the rapper tells another member of his Only the Family (OTF) crew, \u201cDon\u2019t book no flights under no names involved wit me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEverything else is just these sweeping generalizations about him,\u201d Findling says.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs to Durk\u2019s jailhouse phone calls, Findling says it\u2019s extremely common for inmates to use each other\u2019s phone minutes, telling Billboard<\/em> it seems that prosecutors are grasping at straws and \u201clooking for a reason\u201d to keep Durk behind bars.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe have never heard anything from a jail official one time about Durk Banks doing anything improper,\u201d says Findling. \u201cWhat we have heard when we talk to them is what a respectful young man he is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA spokesperson for the prosecution did not immediately return a request for comment on the bail denial.<\/p>\n

\n\tDurk is due back in court for another hearing on June 2.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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