A federal jury has reached a verdict in Grammy-winning rapper Lil Durk’s murder -for-hire trial after beginning deliberations Wednesday over a deadly shooting near a Los Angeles shopping center. However, the exact verdict is still unclear.
Because he faces a separate federal racketeering case, even if Durk is found not guilty, he could still remain behind bars. However, but the decision may not immediately mean freedom for the rapper. “It doesn’t really turn on the merits of the case or the strength of the evidence, although that’s one factor to be considered. But the primary factor is risk of flight and danger. And the evidence is generally viewed in the light most favorable to the government.”
Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani, now president of West Coast Trial Lawyers, told Complex that prosecutors will “almost certainly” ask for detention even if they lose the trial. “Detention is appropriate if there’s two factors in place: someone is either a risk of flight, or they’re a danger to the community,” he explained.
