Courts and Crime
Durk's defense fought the admission, saying it would create “so much risk of prejudice and confusion"
With a week to go before the start of Lil Durk’s murder-for-hire trial in Los Angeles, a federal judge ruled Thursday that the rapper’s video and lyrics for his hit single “Pissed Me Off” can be used as evidence.
At a morning hearing, U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald granted prosecutors’ request to admit the video and lyrics over the objection of Durk’s defense. In their motion, prosecutors argued the song shows Durk’s “resolve to avenge” the death of his friend and protégé, Dayvon “King Von” Bennett.
According to prosecutors, Durk blamed fellow rapper Quando Rondo, born Tyquian Terrel Bowman, for Bennett’s death and was seeking retribution when he allegedly orchestrated a hit on Bowman that instead killed bystander Saviay’a “Lul Pab” Robinson in Los Angeles four years ago. Durk, whose legal name is Durk Banks, denies any involvement in Robinson’s death.
