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Judge Rules Durk's Phone Evidence Admissible in Murder-for-Hire Trial

Lil Durk loses a major pre-trial motion—his seized phone data is coming in front of the jury.

A federal judge sided with prosecutors and cleared evidence pulled from Lil Durk's 2021 cellphone to be used when his murder-for-hire case goes to trial in August. That's a significant loss for the Chicago rapper's defense team, who were banking on getting that material blocked before jurors ever saw it.

Phone data can be devastating in these kinds of cases. Messages, call logs, location history—it all paints a narrative. Durk's lawyers fought hard to keep it out, but the judge wasn't convinced by their arguments. Now prosecutors have a green light to present whatever they found on that device as evidence of his alleged involvement in the plot.

This is the kind of pre-trial ruling that can shift momentum in a federal case. With the trial set for next month, Durk's team is running out of time and options to limit what the jury hears. The phone evidence could be central to how this whole thing plays out.

Stay locked for updates as the trial approaches.


Read the full story at AllHipHop → https://allhiphop.com/news/lil-durk-loses-key-battle-over-seized-phone-evidence-before-trial/

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