Lil Durk’s lawyers are fighting to either strip out the new racketeering charges or get the whole third superseding indictment thrown out.
This is a filing in late June 2026 stating that the late amendments from the government are unfair, and deny him his right to a speedy trial. The trial is now expected to take place in Los Angeles federal court on August 20, 2026.
It all began when the prosecutors accused Durk (real name Durk Devontay Banks) of arranging the 2022 murder-for-hire contract of Rondo to get revenge for the death of his best friend King Von back in 2020. It was supposed to end with a chaotic shooting on August 19, 2022, at a gas station in Beverly Grove area near Beverly Center. The gunmen riddled Rondo’s vehicle with over a dozen bullets. Rondo managed to survive; however, he lost his 26-year-old cousin Saviay’a “Lul Pab” Robinson.
According to the feds, Durk and his Only The Family crew paid for the shooters to fly from Chicago to LA, supplied vehicles, and put a bounty on Rondo. They’ve charged it as racketeering under the VICAR law (Violent Crimes in Aid of Racketeering).
Then, on June 3, 2026, prosecutors unveiled a much broader third superseding indictment. It included new charges such as murder in aid of racketeering, conspiracy to commit stalking, and attempted murder in Atlanta in 2019, a 2022 murder in Chicago, drug trafficking, robbery, and obstruction of justice. This new charge reveals that the government is seeing OTF as a criminal organization involved in various kinds of crimes, including murder and music.
Durk has been apprehended in October 2024, and he has pleaded not guilty to all charges against him. He has been behind bars ever since.
His legal team Drew Findling, Marissa Goldberg, Brian Steel, and Christy O’Connor filed about 25 pages of arguments saying the new charges dump a ton of extra evidence on them (including terabytes of data), prejudice the jury, and make it impossible to be ready for trial after nearly two years of focusing on the original LA shooting case.
In a strongly worded response, the defense called the expanded indictment “lipstick on a pig” and a “pathetic pivot.” They accused prosecutors of digging up old, previously sidelined claims just to strengthen a weak case.
“For nearly two years now, federal prosecutors have desperately tried to fend off challenges to a very weak case,”
The attorneys said.
They’re asking the judge to let the trial go forward on just the original charges and sever everything else or, better yet, dismiss the whole indictment so they don’t have to keep dealing with these delays. The defense argues that after multiple continuances (which Durk opposed), adding all this new stuff at the last minute makes meaningful preparation impossible without pushing the trial back even further.
If the judge agrees to sever or dismiss, the case would shrink down to just the 2022 LA incident. That would keep out a lot of the other evidence and make things simpler for the jury. Prosecutors, on the other hand, say the bigger indictment just shows the full picture of the alleged enterprise and insist they’re still ready to go on August 20.
This motion could completely change or even delay how the high-profile case unfolds.
