A preliminary listening to for the homicide case in opposition to singer D4vd, authorized identify David Anthony Burke, was postponed once more till the top of July throughout a Wednesday courtroom continuing in Los Angeles.
Burke appeared in courtroom for a standing listening to on Wednesday when the choice to delay the listening to till July 21 was introduced after his defence workforce requested for extra time, in accordance with NBC Los Angeles and Rolling Stone.
One other standing convention was scheduled for July 7 and the preliminary listening to is anticipated to final round 5 days, in accordance with the shops.
The decide mentioned she discovered “good trigger” to proceed the listening to after studying a sealed declaration from the Romantic Murder singer’s lead lawyer Marilyn Bednarski, Rolling Stone experiences.
Final month, the preliminary listening to for the homicide case had been delayed till the top of June as a result of quantity of latest proof within the case and was set to start on June 29.
Deputy District Lawyer Beth Silverman advised the courtroom that prosecutors have already turned over greater than 10 terabytes of digital proof, together with supplies discovered as a part of a sequence of search warrants that have been executed on the 21-year-old singer’s telephone and iCloud account.
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Silverman mentioned prosecutors are persevering with to add proof and added that the general discovery might exceed 40 terabytes.
Burke has been charged with homicide within the demise of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, whose decomposed physique was discovered within the trunk of a Tesla registered to the singer final 12 months.
He pleaded not responsible to the costs in April and is being held with out bond forward of his trial.
Burke’s preliminary listening to was additionally beforehand rescheduled for Could 26 after it had initially been set to start on Could 1.
The listening to comes after prosecutors alleged in April that Burke killed 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez by stabbing her a number of instances.
The Los Angeles County District Lawyer’s Workplace shared what it mentioned the proof would present in a doc that offered the primary detailed allegations of efforts to dismember Rivas’s physique and do away with proof, in accordance with The Related Press.
The courtroom submitting, considered and obtained by The Related Press, alleges that Burke started a sexual relationship together with her when she was 13 and he was 18, and killed her when she threatened to disclose their inappropriate relationship.
“Figuring out he needed to silence the sufferer earlier than she ruined his music profession as she had threatened, very quickly after her arrival at his residence, defendant stabbed the sufferer to demise a number of instances and stood by whereas she bled out,” the filings allege.
Rivas’s demise was dominated a murder within the report from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Workplace that had been blocked from launch for months.
The post-mortem was restricted by “intensive postmortem adjustments” to the physique that was dismembered and decomposing when it was present in two luggage within the trunk of a Tesla parked within the Hollywood Hills in September 2025.
The examination revealed “two penetrating wounds of the torso with easy edges which will symbolize sharp pressure accidents.” One wound on the higher stomach penetrated the liver. One other, on the left chest, broken her ribs. The tube prime she was carrying gave the impression to be lower in three locations.
A decide had ordered the report sealed late final 12 months on the request of regulation enforcement, however prosecutors agreed to permit its launch in April.
The Los Angeles County District Lawyer’s Workplace beforehand introduced that Burke was charged with first-degree homicide, lewd and lascivious acts with a person underneath 14 and mutilating a physique within the killing of Rivas. She was reported lacking by her household in 2024, when she was 13. Authorities say she was 14 when she died.
The homicide fees included particular circumstances — mendacity in wait, committing against the law for monetary acquire and murdering the witness in an investigation — that might carry the demise penalty. Prosecutors haven’t introduced whether or not they may search it.
—with recordsdata from The Related Press
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