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Lil Durk Denied Jail Release After Lyrics Axed From Murder-For-Hire Indictment

Lil Durk lost a request to get out of jail while awaiting a murder-for-hire trial, even after prosecutors removed rap lyrics from the indictment.

A federal judge has denied Lil Durk ’s latest request to be released from jail as he awaits trial on murder-for-hire charges, unswayed by the argument of the Chicago drill star’s attorney that his circumstances have dramatically changed following the removal of rap lyrics from his indictment. But a recently updated indictment removed the lyrics, as well as other allegations about a bounty payment, after Durk’s legal team pointed out that “Wonderful Wayne” was written and recorded seven months before the incident. The defense lawyer emphasizes that the new indictment’s only specific allegation against Durk is a single “unexplained, out of context text message” in which the rapper tells another member of his Only the Family (OTF) crew, “Don’t book no flights under no names involved wit me.”

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