A federal judge ordered that rapper Lil Durk remains behind bars while waiting for his trial for murder against the rental of accusations, citing a report that he violates the prison rules using other telephone accounts of the other detainees and by engaging in three calls.
During an audience for revising bond on Thursday, US magistrate Judge Patricia Donahue said that the rapper, whose legal name is Durk Devontay Banks, showed “lack of respect for the rules”, using 13 other telephone accounts of prisoners at the Los Angeles metropolitan detention center.
Drew Findling, lawyer for Banks, argued that other detainees had done the same thing and said that the defense team “did not see this as a problem” which would prevent its release. He also told the judge that Banks, who wore a white prayer ceiling, had been “in his Muslim faith”.
Banks, 32, is accused of having ordered the murder of Tyquian Bowman, a Georgia rapper called Quoo Rondo, whose cousin was killed in an botched ambush near the Beverly Center shopping center in Los Angeles in 2022. Banks pleaded not guilty to the accusations.
Last week, the prosecutors filed a replaced indictment which added a hunt leading to a death accusation. This indictment deleted the references before the words which had previously declared that the banks used to market the death by ball.
Prosecutors previously declared that Banks had struck about his revenge “with music that explicitly referred to audio from a news clip” from Bowman shouting: “No, no!” After seeing the body of his cousin.
During a detention hearing in December, Finling told court that the referenced song prosecutors had been recorded eight months before the shooting.
During the hearing on Thursday, Findling focused on the abolition of these words from the indictment, calling on “proven false” that his client had “monetized and celebrated death at the heart of this case”.
“This case of murder does not concern the words of the defendant and it is not his music. It is his conduct,” he assistant to us Atty. Ian Yanniello told the judge.
Yanniello said the defense team had not provided new information that undermined the December judge’s initial decision that the banks were detained. By refering to prison calls, Yanniello said that banks “will not follow the rules”.
Findling has repeatedly referred to allegations against his client as “scanning generalizations”.
“If you are going to lighten the dangerous, there must be details,” Findling on the judge told.
Although Findling said that banks were ready to hire 24 -year security to guarantee compliance with the conditions imposed by the court, the judge wondered if the guards would be willing to report the person who paid them.
After the hearing, Findling said that the case against his client “comes down to a text message outside the context”.
“We think that a 32-year-old man without file should be entitled to time outside the prison cell he can spend with his family and colleagues,” he said.
Banks’ trial is expected to start on October 14.
California Daily Newspapers
