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  "title": "Grammy-winning rapper Lil Durk acquitted in murder-for-hire trial",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/12/grammy-winning-rapper-lil-durk-acquitted-in-murder-for-hire-trial",
  "topic": "culture",
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  "published": "2026-09-12T04:23:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
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    "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/leisure/2026/09/12/grammy-winning-rapper-lil-durk-acquitted-in-murder-for-hire-trial"
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  "account": "Grammy-winning rapper Lil Durk was cleared of all charges on Friday in a federal murder-for-hire trial, a Los Angeles court reported. The rapper, whose real name is Durk Banks, was accused of ordering the murder of rival rapper Quando Rondo in a 2022 daylight ambush in Los Angeles. Two co-defendants, Deandre Dontrell Wilson and David Brian Lindsey, were found guilty of conspiracy to commit stalking and related charges. However, Banks was acquitted of all charges, including murder-for-hire. He remains in custody and faces a separate trial on related murder and weapons offenses on October 5th. The trial stemmed from the fatal shooting of Saviay Robinson, a cousin of Quando Rondo, who was mistakenly killed in a hail of gunfire during a botched execution of a plot allegedly ordered by Banks.",
  "summary": "Durk Banks was accused of orchestrating the revenge killing of a man shot dead in a daytime ambush in Los Angeles four years ago.",
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