Overview
- Jurors began deliberations Wednesday and moved into a second day after sending notes that asked the judge to provide digitized evidence and clarify what the law means by intent on two federal stalking counts.
- Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald denied the defense’s emergency motion during deliberations to reopen the record and admit additional footage from Durk’s 2023 DJ Akademiks interview.
- Prosecutors used a roughly 56‑second clip from that interview during rebuttal closings and described it as an admission of responsibility, while defense lawyers say the excerpt was misleadingly spliced and asked for corrective material or instructions.
- The government’s case rests on testimony from cooperating co‑defendants plus travel logs, GPS, flight and rental records, credit‑card and phone data and surveillance video, and the defense has focused on attacking cooperator credibility.
- There is no verdict yet and jurors’ questions about stalking intent show they are focused on specific elements of the charges; even if Durk is acquitted in this trial he faces a separate federal racketeering case that could keep him in custody.