Judge Admits 2021 6ix9ine Interview in Lil Durk Murder-for-Hire Trial
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Updated · Yahoo! Voices · Aug 24
Judge Admits 2021 6ix9ine Interview in Lil Durk Murder-for-Hire Trial
3 articles · Updated · Yahoo! Voices · Aug 24
Summary
Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald ruled that Exhibit 170 — a YouTube clip of 6ix9ine discussing King Von — can be shown to jurors in Lil Durk’s federal murder-for-hire trial.
Prosecutors said the August 2021 interview helped fuel calls for violent revenge after Von’s death, tying it to their claim that Durk later arranged a retaliatory August 2022 shooting in Los Angeles.
That shooting allegedly targeted Quando Rondo, who was present at the 2020 gunfight in which King Von was killed, but instead left Rondo’s cousin Saviay'a Robinson dead.
Durk’s lawyers had argued there was no proof he ever saw the interview and sought to block it; jury selection is set to begin Thursday, with a separate racketeering trial still ahead.