Lil Durk Loses Bid to Keep January Trial Date as Judge Grants Months-Long Delay

A federal judge has officially agreed to delay Lil Durk’s highly watched murder for hire trial, granting a request from prosecutors and three of his co-defendants to push the case back several months.

According to court documents obtained by Complex, the trial start date has been moved from January 20 to May 4. While every other defendant signed on to the request, Durk strongly objected and asked for the trial to move forward as originally scheduled.

Durk, born Durk Devontay Banks, has been behind bars since October 2024 after being charged in a sweeping federal indictment. Prosecutors allege he offered a bounty for the killing of rapper Quando Rondo, whose real name is Tyquian Terrel Bowman. The alleged plot was tied to a 2020 Atlanta nightclub shooting that left one of Durk’s close friends, King Von, dead.

The court filing lays out why prosecutors argued more time was necessary. According to the documents, the case includes an enormous volume of evidence, described as hundreds of gigabytes of digital material. That includes audio and video recordings, surveillance footage, more than 30,000 pages of reports and records, photographs, witness statements, and medical documents.

“The case is so unusual and so complex, due to the nature of the prosecution and the number of defendants that it is unreasonable to expect preparation for pre trial proceedings or for the trial itself within the time limits established by the Speedy Trial Act,” the filing states.

Despite Durk’s push to move forward, the judge sided with prosecutors, officially resetting the timeline for one of hip hop’s most serious federal cases.