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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrew Dalton

Singer D4vd loses prominent lawyers defending him in killing of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez

D4vd-Girl Killed - (Ted Soqui/Pool European Pressphoto Agency via AP)

Singer D4vd lost his high-profile private lawyers 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's not clear why Blair Berk and her colleagues Marilyn Bednarski and Regina Peter parted ways with the indie-pop singer whose legal name is David Anthony Burke. They were replaced by a lawyer from the Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office.

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