David Burke Agrees to June 29 Delay in D4vd Hearing

David Burke, the musician known as d4vd, agreed in a Los Angeles courtroom on Tuesday to push his evidentiary hearing to June 29. The hearing had been set for May 26, and Burke is now due back in court on June 17 for another status conference.

Los Angeles Court Appearance

Burke appeared in court in an orange jail uniform and told the judge he agreed to the new delay. Blair Berk, his defense lawyer, had sought the postponement after prosecutors released a brief on April 29 describing their theory of how the remains of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez ended up in his towed Tesla.

The filing is the first detailed account prosecutors have laid out publicly in the case. It says they believe Burke lured Rivas to his Los Angeles rental home, killed her on April 23, 2025, dismembered her with a chainsaw, and concealed her remains for months.

April 29 Evidence Brief

Burke has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, continuous sexual abuse of a child under the age of 14, and unlawful mutilation of human remains. Prosecutors also added special circumstance allegations of murder of a witness, murder for financial gain, and lying in wait.

The brief says surveillance video shows Burke driving his Tesla on July 29, 2025, before parking it near his rental home and leaving for a concert tour. Investigators later found Rivas’ remains in the car on Sept. 8, 2025.

Celeste Rivas Hernandez Case

Prosecutors say Burke met Rivas when she was 11 and started a sexual relationship with her when she turned 13. The filing says authorities found Burke’s number in Rivas’ phone records after her family reported her as a possible runaway, and that Burke kept pursuing her after being told her age.

The evidence brief also says Burke allegedly paid a classmate $1,000 to deliver a secret phone so they could stay in touch. Recovered text messages between Burke and Rivas allegedly reference sex, pregnancy, and abortion, and prosecutors say the pair argued the night before an Uber driver brought Rivas from Lake Elsinore to his rental house in the Hollywood Hills.

The June 17 status conference now sits between the delayed hearing and the filing that triggered it. For Burke, the extra time keeps the court from testing the prosecution’s evidence until late June; for the case, it adds another month before the first major hearing on the state’s theory reaches the courtroom.