Lil Durk Bond Hearing: Why I’d Bet the House He Gets Bond

[0:00] The government's like, oh, your honor, even if he puts everything up, it wouldn't be enough because he could still skip town, leave the country, go to another country, make music and get all his wealth back. [0:13] That's a ridiculous argument. [0:15] That is so absurd. [0:16] I will bet anything he gets a bond. [0:21] Little Dirk, bond hearing. [0:23] I'm going to take you through in this video everything that happened. [0:26] We're right outside the courthouse. [0:27] I had a great interaction with Christy O'Connor and I pointed out something. [0:31] And then she was like, you know what, I'm going to write that down and take care of that. [0:33] I'm going to tell you at the end of this video what I told Christy and I suspect you're going to see it come in the filings in a couple of days. [0:39] So check this out. [0:41] Little Dirk is getting a bond. [0:43] The judge hasn't decided that yet. [0:44] That's my opinion. [0:45] I'm willing to put up. [0:46] If you've got odds for me, send me a message. [0:49] I will bet anything he gets a bond. [0:51] Here was the key moment. [0:52] The judge said he was talking to Christy O'Connor. [0:55] I'm willing to work with you, but I need to be assured that he's putting up everything and that if he breaks the bond conditions that he's going to lose everything. [1:03] How can you assure me of that? [1:05] And me and Christy had a conversation about that actually just now outside the courtroom. [1:08] Tino, that's why I think he's getting a bond because when the judge said that, hey, I'm willing to work with you. [1:12] He basically said that, all right, it sounds to me like he's not a danger to the community to the point I can't give him a bond. [1:19] And he's not a threat to flee as long as I'm assured that he puts everything up. [1:24] All right. [1:24] So let me take you through everything that happened in the bond hearing and not just what happened in the bond hearing. [1:29] But really, the more explosive part of today in that courtroom was defendant D.D. Wilson and his argument under Brady versus Maryland that his trial was prejudiced and that he should be given a new trial. [1:42] There were fireworks in that courtroom today when that D.D. motion played out. [1:45] I'm going to take you through what exactly happened there. [1:48] All right. [1:48] So let's get the headline out of the way. [1:50] What was the judge's decision? [1:51] The judge said he's taking it under submission. [1:54] What that means is that he's going to think on it. [1:56] He'll go home. [1:57] You might see a decision later tonight. [1:59] You might see a decision tomorrow, maybe a couple of days. [2:01] I don't think it'll be more than a week or two. [2:03] And subject to what Christie's about to do, or I think she's about to do, a couple of things could change. [2:09] Let me break it all down for you. [2:10] So starting with how the bond motion was argued, every single one of Dirk's lawyers went up there and made the arguments. [2:16] You had Drew Finling. [2:18] You had Christie O'Connor. [2:19] You had Marissa, the voice Goldberg. [2:21] And you had Brian, the real deal, Steele. [2:22] And every one of them handled a separate part of it. [2:26] So Drew was handling why under the law he should get a bond. [2:30] Christie was addressing the bond package in terms of what assets he's going to put up and how the judge can be satisfied that he is putting up everything. [2:39] Marissa Goldberg was there to address the Vicar count and the strength of the evidence against Dirk. [2:44] And Brian Steele was there to address the claims by the government that Dirk has been treating the MDC like a hotel and talking back to MDC officers and that he's been breaking the rules and acting above the law in MDC. [2:57] How can you let this guy out on bond? [2:59] He's such a big threat to society. [3:01] He's going to do this. [3:01] He's going to run amok, in the words of the prosecutors. [3:04] So the bond hearing started with the judge saying, all right, look, I already denied bond for this guy. [3:11] And there's law that says, well, there has to be some changed circumstances. [3:15] And the last time, the big reason why I denied his bond is because he fled, right? [3:20] He just get up and he started fleeing. [3:22] Now, the jury, when the jury listened to that evidence at the trial, they were asked to evaluate whether or not him fleeing was consciousness of guilt, whether he was fleeing because he just panicked and got scared or whether he was fleeing because he knew he was guilty. [3:35] But for me, this is the judge speaking, for me, that was a blatant attempt to flee. [3:39] That's how I saw it. [3:40] And so that is a major reason why I can't give him a bond. [3:44] So after the judge gave his thoughts, Drew Finling went on and Drew did his thing. [3:48] He was cooking. [3:49] He started off with this great premise. [3:51] He was like, you heard them in the closing argument saying he's no Jay-Z. [3:55] And that's why when we decided to get letters from people to speak to who he is, we got Jay-Z. [4:02] That's how you cook. [4:04] So the point that Drew made, and it was very powerful because he coupled it with this concept of Michael Rubin and the Reform Alliance. [4:12] And Drew said, look, I go all over the country and I work with bar associations and I work with lawyers and we are passionate about the system and criminal rights. [4:21] And we have Michael Rubin who is here putting in a letter. [4:26] And the reason why these people are important, Your Honor, is because these are people whose reputations mean everything to them. [4:32] They have all the money in the world and their reputation is more valuable to them than that. [4:35] And they are standing next to Dirk Banks and they're putting their reputation on the line. [4:38] Because if Dirk Banks were to violate this bond down the line, their reputation, and Drew didn't want to say this, but it was kind of there and he stopped. [4:46] Their reputation would go to shit. [4:48] And they're confident that he's not going to violate. [4:51] And so they're standing next to this man. [4:53] And from there, Drew just set the table, man. [4:55] He was serving a five-course meal. [4:57] This was three Michelin star stuff. [4:59] He's like, look, they're talking about a murder in Chicago. [5:02] Well, that Chicago murder, we got the Chicago district attorney who never even indicted him on that murder. [5:11] And we know that in that murder, there are two individuals who have been convicted. [5:16] And they have nothing to say about Dirk Banks' involvement in that murder. [5:21] And then he went to the Atlanta street. [5:22] He's like, in Atlanta? [5:23] That was in 2019. [5:25] I know the attorney general in Atlanta right now. [5:28] And I know everything that happened back in 2019. [5:32] And the prosecution decided, oh, we don't even want to prosecute him for this. [5:35] Now, what Drew didn't say, because I don't think he wanted to open the door and start a fight that he didn't have to, [5:41] because he has such a great bond argument already. [5:44] But what the prosecution later admitted, and they stepped in it, in my opinion, [5:48] the prosecution really stepped in it because they were on tilt and they were trying to defend this. [5:52] Oh, he can't get a bond. [5:53] And then the prosecution said this. [5:55] This is a quote. [5:55] It's going to get thrown back in their face. [5:57] And the prosecution said, well, you know, Atlanta might be circumstantial. [6:00] They can say that. [6:01] And they can say that the Chicago thing is circumstantial. [6:04] But, Your Honor, the substantive charge in this vicar count is the Los Angeles murder. [6:10] And all of the evidence about the Los Angeles murder is going to be presented. [6:14] And it is here today for you to consider in granting a bond. [6:17] Now, to me, that was a critical error. [6:19] Because, one, the judge is going to think about that and say, yeah, but all that evidence led to a not guilty. [6:25] Why should it then lead me to say that he's so dangerous? [6:28] And, two, they're going to throw that back in the prosecution's face. [6:31] They're going to say, how can you possibly try to have a trial here in Los Angeles using the same evidence and the same murder that was already found not guilty of? [6:39] And now you're admitting that the substantive charge of the vicar count is the Los Angeles murder. [6:44] And, of course, you have to admit it because just read the papers. [6:46] That's what it says. [6:47] We're going to get into more about the vicar at the end. [6:49] Because there was a lot that was said about the vicar that is very interesting. [6:53] Because it tells you what the prosecution is thinking about the vicar, what the judge is thinking about the vicar, [6:58] and what Dirk's defense team is thinking about how they're going to defend this vicar. [7:02] Once Drew was done, Christy O'Connor went up there and she said, [7:05] Judge, the last time when you denied his bond, you were concerned that he's putting up some of what he has, but not everything. [7:12] And you wanted to be assured that if he gets a bond, that what he's putting up as the collateral is everything, [7:19] and that he understands that everything is on the line if he violates. [7:21] Well, guess what, Judge? [7:22] We have done that for you. [7:24] I've been on the phone with transactional attorneys. [7:26] I understand his business and how it works. [7:28] And I am prepared to present you with what you need to ensure that every asset he has, [7:35] every source of income, every royalty, all his intellectual property, all of it can be taken by the court. [7:41] Now, in the traditional instance, what you have is somebody might own a house. [7:45] And they take the deed of the house and they let the court put a lien against that deed. [7:49] And there's a contract with the court. [7:51] And it says that, hey, if I break my bond, you can take my house pursuant to this lien. [7:55] And that lien gets recorded with the city registrar, wherever that is. [8:00] The person who keeps the deed says that, okay, the government has a lien on this house. [8:04] You can't sell this house without talking to the government. [8:06] And if you break the bond, the government can come and just take that deed. [8:09] So what the judge and what Christie were talking about is, well, how do we do that with intellectual property? [8:13] How do we do that with streams of music revenue and all the stuff that this defendant has? [8:18] And the judge noted, and I think this is very interesting. [8:21] I think Christie's going to argue this, and I'll tell you what I told Christie. [8:23] The judge was like, look, as a judge, I have to treat everybody equally, rich or poor. [8:29] And so when you think about that, it's very easy to have a poor person put up all their money. [8:34] You could do that with ease, right? [8:36] Somebody who's poor can go and put all their stuff up. [8:39] So it would be unfair to say that, oh, I'm not going to give a bond to somebody who's rich [8:44] because it's too hard to ensure that they put all their stuff up. [8:47] They might have stuff that I can't find and trace. [8:49] Well, based on the judge's own reasoning, it stands to reason that it's the court's obligation [8:54] to go and trace and accept that if they can show me how to put everything up, and they do, [8:59] then I have to be satisfied that that's everything, and I have to give them the opportunity [9:02] to show me that they put everything up. [9:04] And this is where I told Christie, I said, Christie, get the tax return, Little Dirk's tax return. [9:08] If you give them his tax return, that will tell you what's going on with his income. [9:14] And then you can trace it back, and you can encumber it and put liens on it or sign up [9:18] contracts or whatever, giving the court to go and collect it. [9:21] So I think you're going to see paperwork filed by the defense giving the judge further information [9:26] about his assets and his streams of income and how they can be pledged as collateral for this bond. [9:32] All right, so then we have Marissa Goldberg go up there, and Marissa Goldberg was talking [9:35] about what's left of this case, Your Honor. [9:39] She also kind of, she couldn't resist but address what they were saying about how he's been acting [9:44] in jail. [9:45] And so Marissa's couple points was this, very simple. [9:47] She's like, look, what's left of this case? [9:50] All the evidence, everything that they were bringing was about Los Angeles, he's been acquitted. [9:54] This stuff that they're saying in Chicago, you know what they're saying about him in Chicago? [9:57] One of the convicted murderers posted an Instagram post with Little Dirk's song playing as the [10:03] soundtrack, where he's there with the gun going bah bah bah, and the song is about murders. [10:09] What's that? [10:10] This is the same type of circumstantial evidence the jury rejected the first time. [10:13] As to the point that Marissa wanted to bring up, which was that, you know, they're saying, [10:19] hey, he's treating the MDC like a hotel. [10:21] She crushed it. [10:22] She was like very quick on her feet. [10:24] And she's like, listen, he's been locked up for almost two years. [10:28] You've been to the MDC, Your Honor. [10:29] This is nothing like a hotel. [10:31] That's ridiculous to even put that statement out there. [10:33] And she ended, she was like, I hope that's a hotel I never have to stay at. [10:38] Brian Steele did his thing. [10:39] Brian Steele did what Brian Steele does, which is he put himself as a steel wall between [10:45] the law and his client. [10:47] Because the government was talking about, hey, Little Dirk's been violating at the prison. [10:51] And, you know, he's been talking back to the people and not letting them search when they [10:56] came to search. [10:57] And Brian Steele's like, no, no, no, no. [10:58] I told him to do what they're accusing him of doing. [11:01] See, what happened here, Your Honor, is he's got this bond hearing coming up and they're [11:04] trying to violate him. [11:05] Brian didn't say it like that, but he set it up. [11:07] He's like, okay, this is what's been going on in the couple of days leading up to this [11:10] bond hearing. [11:11] They searched his cell once. [11:13] They found nothing. [11:14] Oh, by the way, when they search, they also do cavity searches and they do scans and all [11:17] this stuff. [11:18] And within a span of 48, 72 hours, they searched a second time, found nothing. [11:22] And then they come back to search a third time. [11:24] And you know what my client did? [11:25] What I told him to do. [11:26] I told my client that if you feel like you're being targeted, if you feel like something [11:30] unfair is happening, ask for a supervisor. [11:34] And so that's what my client did. [11:35] My client said, hold on, before you come in here a third time to violate me, I want [11:39] a supervisor to see what this is about and explain to me what's going on. [11:43] And oh, by the way, to the extent anybody was talking to the guard or whoever it was who [11:47] was coming in to do the search, it wasn't even Dirk. [11:49] It was somebody else who said, hey, you can't search him right now. [11:52] He asked for a supervisor. [11:53] Go get the supervisor. [11:55] Now, that whole point is just ridiculous. [11:57] Can you imagine that the government is taking, and Brian Steele went off. [12:00] He was like, this is America. [12:01] But in America, for people pre-trial, they're presumed innocent. [12:07] And a place like the MDC, where you get violated like that, it's only for people who there is [12:11] just no way possible that you can assure that they're going to not be a threat to the community, [12:16] that you can assure that they're going to come back to court. [12:19] And this is not that guy. [12:21] This is not that guy today after two years and a not guilty, and he's facing flimsy charges, [12:25] your honor. [12:26] And that was Brian Steele. [12:27] He did his thing. [12:28] So all in all, I think you get the bond based on this concept that the defense is going to [12:36] give, I think the judge might issue a conditional order saying, hey, I'll give you a bond subject [12:41] to you guys showing me that every asset and every income stream and every single thing he [12:47] could possibly ever own and get is encumbered and can be recovered by the court if he violates. [12:52] And so I think that could be done as like a conditional order where the judge orders that and then [12:56] they have to give him the paperwork, or they might be able to get him the paperwork in [13:00] the next day or two ahead of time to kind of preempt that conditional ruling and say, [13:04] look, here it all is. [13:06] And then I think you just get the order granting the bond. [13:09] On that point, the government tried to say some wild shit. [13:13] The government's like, oh, your honor, even if he puts everything up, it wouldn't be enough [13:18] because he could still skip town, leave the country, go to another country, make music [13:24] and get all his wealth back. [13:26] That's a ridiculous argument. [13:28] That is so absurd. [13:29] And throughout that time, every time the government went up there to argue this bond motion and [13:34] say things like, oh, the substantive charge is the Los Angeles murder and all that evidence [13:38] is going to be used against him again. [13:40] And that even if you take away everything from him and he loses it, he will go make music in [13:44] another country and make it, it was just, it was a farce and I don't get it. [13:48] I, it's almost like they're starstruck and like, you know, when you have like that really [13:53] pretty girl and it, she just becomes your whole world and she's not for you. [13:57] And you're just like, ah, this is not your defendant anymore, guys. [14:00] You've got to let it go. [14:01] In my opinion, you've got to let this go. [14:03] That was the bond motion. [14:04] Now I'm going to do another video. [14:06] Stay tuned, lock in on Didi and the motion for a new trial based on a Brady violation. [14:13] It was insane. [14:14] The judge was kind of angry when he started and the prosecution got a chance to go up [14:18] there first and he tore into the prosecution. [14:20] And then Didi's lawyer literally accused the judge of being biased and saying, the judge [14:25] said some wild shit. [14:27] The judge said, your client is a murderer. [14:30] And then Harbaugh, Didi's lawyer was like, he wasn't convicted of murder. [14:33] He got acquitted on murder, judge. [14:35] You saying stuff like that makes me say that you're biased. [14:37] And the judge is like, well, put that in a recusal motion or put that, that, that has, [14:41] it was fireworks. [14:42] Anyway, stay tuned, locked in next video. [14:45] We're going to cover Didi. [14:47] And for this one, I'll bet he's getting that bond. [14:50] It might take a minute, might have to put in some more paperwork, but that bond is coming.