American rapper Lil Durk’s first attempt to secure a bond in his Murder-For-Hire case has been denied.
Durk’s Attorneys in hopes of getting him a bond before his trial filed a pretrial release motion on Thursday the 12th of December.
The legal team of the rapper in its attempt to get him a bond offered a bond package that included Durk’s two homes in Georgia, worth a combined $2.3 million, in addition to $1 million in cash from Sony Music. The reps of the Chicago rapper reps also cited Durk being granted a bond in his 2019 case for criminal intent to commit murder. Charges that were later dropped.
Durk’s Attorneys wrote ””The best determiner of how an individual will act in the future is how they behaved in the past, and Mr. Banks has shown that he respects the orders of the Court and has been an ideal candidate for pretrial release,”.
Countering the argument by the Attorneys of the ‘All My Life’ hitmaker, Prosecutors described the bond proposal as ”woefully inadequate”.
””Evidence collected in this case also shows (the) defendant has allegedly placed monetary bounties to solicit other murders, including a family member of a witness,” prosecutors wrote. “Defendant’s modus operandi is clear: he will use his power, his money, his influence, and any pretrial release to endanger anyone who he perceives as a threat, including witnesses in this case.”
The judge ultimately sided with the prosecution following a lengthy hearing.
In September this year, the rapper was arrested by U.S Marshals in South Florida for Murder-For-Hire. He has since been kept in custody and charged for paying five men to murder rival rapper Quando Rondo in retaliation to the death of his artist and friend King Von. Von was shot and killed by an associate of Quando in November of 2020. Quando was unharmed in the Los Angeles murder attempt. However, his cousin Saviay’a Robinson, a.k.a. Lul Pab, was fatally wounded.
After pleading not guilty to the charges against him last month, his trial has been scheduled to take on the 7th of January 2025.
