Overview
- Lil Durk remains jailed and his federal trial on murder‑for‑hire charges is set to begin on August 20 with racketeering counts severed by Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald.
- Durk’s lawyers have moved to suppress data from two phones and an unspecified text, arguing the Georgia Bureau of Investigation took the devices during a July 2021 home invasion and that officials retained and shared the data for years before the FBI sought its own warrant.
- The defense filed a motion in limine to block exhibits prosecutors quietly added to their July exhibit list, saying the items include unrelated photos and texts about drugs, guns and other violence that the court previously barred and that the government failed to properly disclose.
- Prosecutors want to show Durk’s 2021 song and music video 'Pissed Me Off' as evidence of motive and links to gang activity while the defense contends the material is protected artistic expression and would unfairly prejudice jurors.
- Pretrial hearings, including an August motions hearing, will resolve the Fourth Amendment and evidence‑notice disputes and will largely determine the trial’s scope and whether separate, severed counts are tried later.