D4vd pleads not guilty in murder case as his high-profile lawyers pull out of defending him

D4vd has pleaded not guilty to murdering 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, and his high-profile lawyers have withdrawn from defending him. The singer, real name David Anthony Burke has been accused by prosecutors of killing Hernandez and dismembering her body with a chainsaw in his garage after buying tools online. On April 20, he was charged with her murder. He previously pleaded not guilty to murdering and sexually abusing the teen, whose remains had been found severely decomposed in the front boot of a Tesla registered to Burke last September. After a five-day preliminary hearing at the end of July, where Los Angeles prosecutors questioned a dozen witnesses and displayed photographic evidence as the teenager’s family attended court, a judge ruled that Burke would go on trial for the murder. Now, appearing in a Los Angeles court on Monday (August 31), Burke pleaded not guilty to the murder charges. His high-profile lawyers, Blair Berk, Marilyn Bednarski and Regina Peter, have also confirmed that they will no longer be representing the singer, as they have had their request to withdraw from the case approved by the court. TMZ reports D4vd's attorneys have withdrawn from his cas...