Judge weighs evidence to move D4vd case toward trial in teen’s death
A Los Angeles judge will decide at a four-day preliminary hearing whether prosecutors have enough evidence to move singer D4vd (David Burke) to trial for the murder and dismemberment of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, with prosecutors alleging Burke lured her to his Hollywood Hills home, stabbed her to death, and dismembered her body in his garage; the defense has pleaded not guilty to murder, continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14, and unlawful mutilation of human remains, and there is no jury for this proceeding.