Rapper Lil Durk’s lawyers on Thursday called for the dismissal of his murder-for-hire case in Los Angeles after learning that a judge and prosecutor received death threats that weren’t disclosed to the Chicago superstar’s legal team for seven months.

Lil Durk, whose real name is Durk Banks, was initially charged in the conspiracy in October 2024 — the same day five other men were indicted in the killing of the cousin of rival rapper Quando Rondo in L.A. in August 2022.

In an explosive court filing, Banks’ lawyers and the attorneys for three of his co-defendants hold that secretive investigations and closed-door meetings about the threats have “irreparably compromised the structural integrity of these proceedings.”

Government officials knew in February that U.S. Magistrate Judge Patricia

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