Attorneys for Chicago rapper Lil Durk have asked that his federal murder-for-hire indictment in Los Angeles be dismissed, alleging that a series of threats made against the judge and lead prosecutor in the case was improperly withheld from the defense.

The motion to disqualify was filed on Thursday in Los Angeles federal court. Attorneys for Lil Durk, born Durk Banks , allege prosecutors in the case waited several months before disclosing that U.S. Magistrate Judge Patricia Donahue and Assistant U.S. Attorney Ian Yanniello were the subjects of threats that were not shared with the defense until October.

The messages to Donahue and Yanniello mentioned Banks’ name and “contained explicit death threats, and invoked acts of mass destruction accompanied by sounds mimicking gunfire,” Banks

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