Lil Durk
Lil Durk’s Murder-for-Hire Case Goes to the Jury After Closing Arguments
The moment that's been building for weeks is finally here. Closing arguments are done, and the jury now holds Lil…
Lil Durk Trial: Prosecutors Allege Revenge Plot as Defense Attacks Cooperators in Closing Arguments
The detail prosecutors keep returning to is not Lil Durk himself but a 24-year-old named Saviay'a Robinson, known as Lul…
Lil Durk Murder-For-Hire Trial: Closing Arguments Begin
The detail that keeps surfacing from witness after witness in Lil Durk's murder-for-hire trial is the same one: Durk allegedly…
Attorney Bradford Cohen Recounts Speaking to Lil Durk One Day Before Arrest
Bradford Cohen, the Florida criminal defense attorney who has represented Lil Wayne, Kodak Black, Drake, Rod Wave, and Travis Scott,…
Lil Durk Trial: Prosecutors Push Shared-Blame Rule Ahead of Closing Arguments
The most telling detail in the latest Lil Durk court filing is not about what he did on August 19,…
Lil Durk Declines to Testify in Murder-for-Hire Trial as Defense Rests
Lil Durk's legal team wrapped up their case without putting the Chicago rapper on the stand, a move that now…
Lil Durk Trial: Judge Says Flights Alone Cannot Prove a Hit
The sharpest moment in Lil Durk's federal trial so far did not come from a witness. It came from the…
Judge Invokes King Henry II During Lil Durk Murder-for-Hire Bounty Debate
A medieval archbishop's murder from 1170 is now part of a federal courtroom's framework for deciding whether a Chicago rapper…
Judge Limits What Prosecutors Can Argue in Lil Durk’s Federal Trial
Before a single juror has even begun deliberating, Lil Durk's defense team has already started building a road to appeal. The dispute centers on a legal rule called the Pinkerton…
Lil Durk Won’t Take the Stand as Murder-for-Hire Trial Nears Close
Lil Durk has been behind bars for nearly two years, and now the trial that put him there is entering its final stretch without a single word from the man…
Lil Durk Trial: Former Label Exec Says Violence Was a Marketing Tool
The most striking moment in Lil Durk's federal trial this week had nothing to do with the alleged murder-for-hire plot at its center. It came when a former Alamo Records…
Lil Durk Posts ‘Allah Is The Greatest’ as Trial Nears Jury Deliberations
With life in prison as a real possibility and closing arguments days away, Lil Durk's first public message during his federal murder-for-hire trial was three words: "Allah Is The Greatest."…
Akademiks Praises Lil Durk’s Defense Attorney Brian Steel
Lil Durk's federal murder-for-hire trial is now in the hands of the jury, and before the verdict lands, Akademiks is making sure Brian Steel and Drew Findling get their credit.…
King Von’s Son’s Mother Calls OTF Vonnie a Liar at Lil Durk Trial
The most striking moment from Lil Durk's murder-for-hire trial this week did not come from a prosecutor or a defense attorney. It came from Shekema "Queen Kema" Springfield, the mother…
Witnesses For Lil Durk’s Defense Testify as FBI Arrest Video Shown
A witness admitting to lying under oath is not the moment any defense team wants in the middle of a murder-for-hire trial. That is exactly what happened on September 3,…
Lil Durk Trial: Prosecution Rests As Defense Begins Calling Witnesses
The moment that may stick with jurors longest came not from a dramatic cross-examination but from a quiet admission by an FBI agent. Special Agent Conor Goepel, one of the…
