Overview
- Lil Durk’s consolidated federal trial is now scheduled to begin on Aug. 20, 2026, after a prior April start date was pushed back.
- U.S. District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald rejected severance requests from co-defendants Deandre Dontrell Wilson, Asa Houston, and David Brian Lindsey, citing judicial efficiency and overlapping proof.
- The judge noted the severance bid had appeared stronger before prosecutors abandoned a claimed link to a separate 2022 Chicago killing.
- In a separate ruling, the judge denied Durk Banks’ request for a bill of particulars, finding the second superseding indictment and government disclosures sufficiently detailed.
- Prosecutors allege Banks used coded communications to recruit attackers for an Aug. 19, 2022 Los Angeles ambush that killed Saviay’a Robinson and allegedly targeted Tyquian Terrel Bowman (Quando Rondo); Banks has pleaded not guilty and remains held without bail since October 2024.