Lil Durk’s Attorneys Blast Fed Prosecutors’ “Hypocrisy”

Defense offered celebrity support letters and music royalties as collateral, but prosecutors rejected the bond proposal. Government claims Lil Durk smuggled an Apple Watch into detention and used it to make hundreds of calls. His next trial isn't scheduled until August, leaving him imprisoned for another year while awaiting trial. Source: Rapper Lil Durk Mugshot / Broward County Clerk of the CourtsThe hopes Lil Durk had of getting out of prison ahead of a second rackteering trial next year were put on hold on Wednesday (November 4), and his lawyers are upset with prosecutors from the federal government aiming to keep the rapper in jail despite him being acquitted of a murder-for-hire charge earlier this year. The prosecution and the defense, along with Lil Durk, appeared before Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald in court. Attorneys Drew Findling, Brian Steel and Marissa Goldberg presented a bond package proposal that included letters of support from known celebrities such as Jay-Z and J. Cole, as well as all of Lil Durk’s future music royalties as well as his mother’s home as collateral.The prosecution wasn’t swayed by the appeal, alleging that Lil Durk aka Durk Banks was guilty of concea...