{"id":78114,"date":"2026-08-31T14:55:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T19:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/defense-lawyers-for-singer-d4vd-withdraw-from-murder-case\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T14:55:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T19:55:50","slug":"defense-lawyers-for-singer-d4vd-withdraw-from-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/defense-lawyers-for-singer-d4vd-withdraw-from-murder-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense lawyers for singer D4vd withdraw from murder case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singer, accused of murder and sexual abuse of teen Celeste Rivas Hernandez, to be represented by LA public defender<\/p>\n<p>Singer D4vd lost his high-profile private lawyers on Monday at a hearing where he entered a new not guilty plea to charges that he killed, sexually abused and dismembered 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear why Blair Berk and her colleagues Marilyn Bednarski and Regina Peter parted ways with the singer, whose legal name is David Anthony Burke. They were replaced by a lawyer from the Los Angeles county public defender\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/31\/d4vd-case-lawyers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer, accused of murder and sexual abuse of teen Celeste Rivas Hernandez, to be represented by LA public defender Singer D4vd lost his high-profile private lawyers on Monday at a hearing where he entered a new not guilty plea to charges that he killed, sexually abused and dismembered 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. It is not &#8230; <a title=\"Defense lawyers for singer D4vd withdraw from murder case\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/defense-lawyers-for-singer-d4vd-withdraw-from-murder-case\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Defense lawyers for singer D4vd withdraw from murder case\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}