And they said DNA evidence that prosecutors used to argue Lanez was the likely shooter fell well short of industry standards. They said that Megan's testimony that Lanez urged her not to go to police because he was on parole and would be in serious trouble was both untrue and an improper allowance of prior bad acts.
Lanez's lawyers asserted that a post from his Instagram account was improperly admitted into evidence.
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Motions for a new trial filed immediately afterward with the same judge are a common precursor to appealing to a higher court, which Lanez's attorneys plan to do. 'There is justice': Tory Lanez found guilty of all charges in Megan Thee Stallion shootingĪs he was led from the courtroom back to jail after a hearing on the motion a day earlier, he pleaded with Herriford to help him, saying "I could be your son.
'We must protect all women': Megan Thee Stallion reflects on Tory Lanez verdict in powerful essay He could get up to 22 years in prison and faces deportation to his native Canada. Lanez, 30, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, will now be sentenced for convictions of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm with gross negligence. He said that the exclusion of the disputed evidence would not have made a difference at the trial. Superior Court Judge David Herriford rejected arguments from lawyers for Lanez that evidence was wrongly admitted at the trial he presided over. LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge on Tuesday denied a motion for a new trial from lawyers for rapper Tory Lanez, who was convicted of three felonies last December for shooting hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion in the feet and wounding her. Damien Henderson and Claire Hardwick, Associated Press
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