‌A federal decide delivered a crushing blow to Lil Durk and his protection staff when he rejected their movement to dismiss the rapper’s murder-for-hire case over dying threats made in opposition to one other decide.

U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald known as the movement baseless throughout a heated courtroom listening to in Los Angeles, the place Durk’s legal professionals argued that prosecutors ought to have disclosed threatening voicemails a lot ahead of they did.

“There is just absolutely no basis for this motion. Just none. Absolutely none,” Fitzgerald stated from the bench, shutting down the protection’s arguments fully.

Lil Durk has been sitting in federal custody since October 2024 on costs that he orchestrated a murder-for-hire plot concentrating on rival rapper Quando Rondo.

The assault killed Quando Rondo’s cousin Saviay’a “Lul Pub” Robinson however missed its supposed goal, in response to federal prosecutors who say the hit was revenge for the November 2020 capturing dying of Durk’s buddy King Von in Atlanta.

Durk’s authorized staff, led by Atlanta lawyer Drew Findling, had requested the courtroom to both dismiss your entire case or compel the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles to step other than the prosecution, according to Meghann Cuniff.

The movement centered round 4 threatening voicemails that U.S. Magistrate Judge Patricia Donahue obtained in February 2025, plus one threatening name that prosecutor Ian Yanniello obtained in April 2025. Donahue had denied Durk’s bail requests twice, making her a goal for nameless callers who apparently needed to intimidate her into altering her thoughts about retaining the rapper locked up.

Prosecutors didn’t inform Durk’s legal professionals about these threats till October 2025, which the protection staff stated was manner too late and confirmed the federal government was hiding essential data.

“Nobody has heard of a case where there was apparently a death threat to a sitting judge and the government does not turn around and tell counsel, you should know before this goes forward that this took place,” Findling argued in courtroom.

Findling steered that prosecutors might need stored quiet concerning the threats to make sure Donahue wouldn’t grant Lil Durk bail at his second listening to in May 2025.

But prosecutor Yanniello fired again, calling the protection movement “stunning in respect to its factual inaccuracy” and saying any declare that the federal government tactically withheld data was fully false.

“There was no conversation about whether to produce or not produce this information before we all decided it became relevant,” Yanniello advised the decide.

Judge Fitzgerald agreed with the prosecution and stated there was zero proof that the threats prompted any prejudice to Durk’s case or affected any decide’s selections.

“It cannot possibly have affected Judge Donahue or me or any other judge that some hothead who has an interest in the music industry did something stupid,” Fitzgerald stated.

The decide famous that threats in opposition to federal officers are sadly widespread and emphasised that nobody has steered Durk himself had something to do with the threatening voicemails. Fitzgerald additionally rejected the protection staff’s request for an evidentiary listening to, saying it might require prosecutors to reveal work product with out authorized justification.

Durk faces conspiracy costs together with 5 co-defendants, together with Kavon London Grant, Keith Jones, Deandre Dontrell Wilson, Asa Houston, and David Brian Lindsey.

The case has been delayed a number of occasions, with the trial now scheduled to start both April 21 or April 28, 2026.

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