In a Los Angeles federal courtroom, rapper Lil Durk was found not guilty of orchestrating a murder-for-hire plot against a rival — a case made more complicated by the fact that the ambush claimed an unintended life rather than the one allegedly targeted. The verdict closes a trial that forced the legal system to grapple with one of its oldest tensions: the distance between what a person intends and what actually comes to pass. For the music industry, it is a rare acquittal in an era of increasing criminal scrutiny of hip-hop figures; for the family of the man who died, it is something harder t
Lil Durk Acquitted in Murder-for-Hire Case
One man was killed in the ambush, though he was not the intended target of the alleged murder-for-hire plot.