Lil Durk Jury Heads Into Third Day of Deliberations With Verdict Still Unresolved

Lil Durk’s federal murder-for-hire case has moved into a third day of jury deliberations after Thursday ended without a verdict, extending the wait over one of the most closely watched hip-hop trials of the year.

The Lil Durk jury deliberations moved into a third scheduled day on Friday, September 11, after Day 2 ended without a verdict and jurors were expected back at 8:30 a.m. PT. As of the latest confirmed reporting checked by 24HipHop, no verdict had been announced for Durk, whose legal name is Durk Banks, or co-defendants Deandre “DeDe” Wilson and David “Browneyez” Lindsey.

The wait follows the jury’s first request after deliberations began Wednesday, when the panel asked to receive all admitted evidence in digital form so it could review the trial record more easily. U.S. District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald said the material would be available by 8:30 a.m. Thursday, but the request itself offered no reliable indication of whether jurors were leaning toward conviction or acquittal.

On Thursday, jurors sent two additional notes asking for clarification on the conspiracy-to-commit-stalking instruction and on the meaning of “intent” in the count involving Saviay’a Robinson, questions also detailed by Complex and in 24HipHop’s earlier report. Fitzgerald did not give jurors a new legal definition of “intent”, instead directing them back to the existing instructions and the word’s ordinary meaning.

Those questions identify legal issues the panel is examining, but they do not reveal how any juror has voted or whether the jury is close to a decision. The instructions require jurors to evaluate each defendant and each count separately, making it important not to read a request for clarification as evidence of a coming guilty or not-guilty verdict.

Prosecutors allege Durk financed and helped direct the August 2022 plot to kill Quando Rondo as retaliation following the 2020 killing of King Von, while Rondo survived the Los Angeles shooting and his cousin Saviay’a Robinson was killed. The defense, including attorney Brian Steel, has attacked the credibility of cooperating witnesses and argued that the government failed to prove Durk knowingly joined the alleged plan, and Durk has pleaded not guilty.

Jurors are weighing five federal counts that include conspiracy to commit stalking and use of interstate commerce facilities in a murder-for-hire plot, with Durk facing a potential life sentence if convicted on the most serious charges. Separate racketeering counts that were severed from this trial remain outside the jury’s present task, an issue that could affect Durk’s custody even after this verdict, and Durk, Wilson and Lindsey remain presumed innocent unless proven guilty.

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