Lil Durk’s lawyers try to get his murder-for-hire case dismissed
Chicago emcee Lil Durk is still in jail awaiting trial for his alleged involvement in the 2022 death of Quando Rondo. However, the rapper’s attorneys are attempting to get the murder-for-hire case dismissed as they believe the prosecution misled the grand jury, which led to his initial indictment.
Atlanta lyricist Quando Rondo was suspected of being behind the murder of the late Chicago legend King Von. Lil Durk has been accused of putting a bounty on Quando Rondo’s head and prompting his murder with an incentive.
Still, Durk’s attorneys are unhappy with how the prosecution has handled this case thus far. According to the emcee’s lawyers, the claim that Lil Durk detailed Quando Rondo’s shooting on Babyface Ray‘s song ‘Wonderful Wayne & Jackie Boy’ is wrong. Allegedly, that track was written long before the shooting took place.
In a new filing, Durk’s attorneys write, “The government’s misrepresentation in the Superseding Indictment, whether knowing or reckless, undermines the integrity of the grand jury’s true bill against Mr. Banks.” The filing continues, “The Court should dismiss the Superseding Indictment against him as a result.”
Durk has also entered a separate filing asking to be released from jail. In the document, his attorneys claim that the prosecutors have “attempted to hold Mr. Banks [Lil Durk] responsible for video clips that YouTubers and Instagram users have edited, produced, and posted to social media, but with whom Mr. Banks has no affiliation.”
In the filing submitted by Lil Durk’s lawyers, the prosecution got an indictment based primarily on speculation. The motion highlights a fan-made video which “shows defendant’s [Lil Durk’s] rival [Quando Rondo] screaming, ‘No, no’ that was placed over these lyrics [from ‘Wonderful Wayne & Jackie Boy’].”
The prosecutors then allegedly “speculated that perhaps [the song] could be a reference to some other uncharged murder.” Despite it being a fan-made video, not an official release.
The Chicago rapper’s legal team goes on to say, “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 commercialisation of a murder that he supposedly ordered.”