Key Takeaways:

• Lil Durk is in opposition to a proposed delay that might transfer his murder-for-hire trial to January 2026.
• Prosecutors and co-defendants argue the case is simply too “complex” to proceed as scheduled in October 2025.
• The rapper’s bond has been denied a number of instances, with the choose citing the severity of the costs and danger of flight.

Lil Durk’s murder-for-hire trial may not start till 2026, although he isn’t significantly completely happy about it. In a joint movement filed in federal courtroom on Friday (Sept. 12), each prosecutors and attorneys for a number of of the Chicago rapper’s co-defendants agreed to the delay, citing that the case is “so unusual and so complex” that the protection groups want extra time to correctly put together.

If the movement is granted, Durk’s new trial would start in January as an alternative of the at present scheduled Oct. 14 continuing. “Defendant Banks does not join in the stipulation to continue the trial in this matter,” the submitting said, per Billboard. The outlet additionally famous that the delay wouldn’t violate the “All My Life” artist’s proper to a speedy trial since he’s one among a number of defendants, and a three-month extension “constitutes a reasonable period of delay.”

It’s price mentioning the trial has already been delayed once — although, that point, Durk truly agreed to it. He was initially supposed to look in courtroom on Jan. 7, however federal prosecutors requested extra time to deal with a discovery course of involving “approximately 230 GB of digital evidence,” together with audio recordings and surveillance footage. According to prosecutors, the proof encompasses “20,000 pages of reports concerning murder and other violent acts, photographs, witness statements, and medical documents.”

Durk is going through critical expenses for his alleged position within the 2022 murder-for-hire plot concentrating on Quando Rondo. Prosecutors declare he ordered his OTF associates to carry out a hit, ensuing within the loss of life of Saviay’a “Lul Pab” Robinson, who was with Rondo in a car on the time.

His bond has additionally been denied a number of instances, together with a $4.5 million bail package. The rapper’s attorneys proposed money, 24-hour house detention, digital monitoring, and personal safety. However, U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald mentioned, “The sentence is mandatory life without parole, which could make flight the rational choice for any innocent defendant.”