Canadian rapper Tory Lanez (R) has been charged over the shooting of Megan Thee Stallion (L)<\/p>\n
\n
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 in December for\u00a0shooting hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion\u00a0in the feet and wounding her.<\/p>\n
Superior Court Judge Herriford rejected arguments from lawyers for Lanez that evidence was wrongly admitted at the\u00a0trial\u00a0he presided over. He said that the exclusion of the disputed evidence would not have made a difference at the trial.<\/p>\n
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 could get up to 22 years in prison and faces deportation to his native Canada.<\/p>\n
As 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 \u201cI could be your son. I could be your brother.\u201d<\/p>\n
Motions for a new trial filed immediately afterward with the same judge are a common precursor to appealing to a higher court, which Lanez\u2019s attorneys plan to do. The motions are very rarely successful.<\/p>\n
Lanez\u2019s lawyers asserted that a post from his Instagram account was improperly admitted into evidence. They said that Megan\u2019s 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. And they said DNA evidence that prosecutors used to argue Lanez was the likely shooter fell well short of industry standards.<\/p>\n
Lanez\u2019s attorneys were disappointed from the start of Monday\u2019s all-day oral arguments on their motion.<\/p>\n
They had an elaborate presentation prepared, complete with audio-visuals and witnesses, but Herriford would have none of it, insisting instead on narrow legal arguments on the precise issues raised, the norm for such motions in California court.<\/p>\n
They pleaded at length with Herriford to allow them to present their arguments in the way they had planned.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel that I would be ineffective if we proceeded,\u201d defense attorney Jose Baez said. \u201cMr. Peterson has the right to due process for which he is entitled.\u201d<\/p>\n
They moved on under protest, and later filed a motion to have the judge disqualified.<\/p>\n
Lanez\u2019s lawyers, who did not represent him at trial, said the attorney who did, George Mgdesyan, made mistakes in his case because he was given so little time to prepare before trial when the rapper\u2019s previous attorney dropped out.<\/p>\n
Megan Thee Stallion, whose legal name is Megan Pete, testified\u00a0that Lanez fired a handgun at the back of her feet and shouted for her to dance as she walked away from an SUV in which they had been riding in the Hollywood Hills in the summer of 2020.<\/p>\n
Mgdesyan said at trial that Megan was lying in her testimony, and Lanez had not pulled the trigger. He said afterward that there was not sufficient evidence to convict.<\/p>\n
As it was throughout the trial, the courtroom was full of media and Lanez\u2019s fans and family members, with many more outside in the hallway.<\/p>\n
The shooting, and the trial, set off a storm of\u00a0cultural issues and arguments\u00a0that peaked during the trial, including the reluctance of Black victims to speak to police, the\u00a0protection of Black women, gender politics in hip-hop, and online toxicity.<\/p>\n
After the verdict was read in December, Lanez\u2019s father,\u00a0Sonstar Peterson, stood and denounced\u00a0\u201cthe wicked system\u201d that led to his son\u2019s conviction and had to be wrestled from the courtroom.<\/p>\n
No sentencing date has been set.<\/p>\n
Lanez began releasing mixtapes in 2009 and saw a steady rise in popularity, moving on to major-label albums. His last two reached the top 10 on Billboard\u2019s charts.<\/p>\n
Megan Thee Stallion was already a major rising star at the time of the shooting, and her prominence has surged since. She won a Grammy for best new artist in 2021, and she had No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 with her own song \u201cSavage,\u201d featuring Beyonc\u00e9, and as a guest on Cardi B\u2019s \u201cWAP.\u201d<\/p>\n
DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian rapper Tory Lanez (R) has been charged over the shooting of Megan Thee Stallion (L) 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 in December for\u00a0shooting hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion\u00a0in the feet and wounding her. Superior […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"\n
Tory Lanez denied new trial in Megan Thee Stallion shooting - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/11\/tory-lanez-denied-new-trial-in-megan-thee-stallion-shooting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tory Lanez denied new trial in Megan Thee Stallion shooting - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Canadian rapper Tory Lanez (R) has been charged over the shooting of Megan Thee Stallion (L) 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 in December for\u00a0shooting hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion\u00a0in the feet and wounding her. Superior […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/11\/tory-lanez-denied-new-trial-in-megan-thee-stallion-shooting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-05-11T07:02:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Tory-Lanez-and-Meghan-Thee-Stallion.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ghana News\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ghana News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/11\/tory-lanez-denied-new-trial-in-megan-thee-stallion-shooting\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/11\/tory-lanez-denied-new-trial-in-megan-thee-stallion-shooting\/\",\"name\":\"Tory Lanez denied new trial in Megan Thee Stallion shooting - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/11\/tory-lanez-denied-new-trial-in-megan-thee-stallion-shooting\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/11\/tory-lanez-denied-new-trial-in-megan-thee-stallion-shooting\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Tory-Lanez-and-Meghan-Thee-Stallion.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-05-11T07:02:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-05-11T07:02:05+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/6f91dab2e50bbbfe895c93e7e84e7f74\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/11\/tory-lanez-denied-new-trial-in-megan-thee-stallion-shooting\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/11\/tory-lanez-denied-new-trial-in-megan-thee-stallion-shooting\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/11\/tory-lanez-denied-new-trial-in-megan-thee-stallion-shooting\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Tory-Lanez-and-Meghan-Thee-Stallion.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Tory-Lanez-and-Meghan-Thee-Stallion.jpg\",\"width\":1600,\"height\":900},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/11\/tory-lanez-denied-new-trial-in-megan-thee-stallion-shooting\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Tory Lanez denied new trial in Megan Thee Stallion shooting\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"Ghana mma provides breaking news, top stories in Ghana, Africa, business, entertainment, politics and more.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/6f91dab2e50bbbfe895c93e7e84e7f74\",\"name\":\"Ghana News\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Ghana News\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/author\/ghanamma\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Tory Lanez denied new trial in Megan Thee Stallion shooting - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/11\/tory-lanez-denied-new-trial-in-megan-thee-stallion-shooting\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Tory Lanez denied new trial in Megan Thee Stallion shooting - Ghanamma.com","og_description":"Canadian rapper Tory Lanez (R) has been charged over the shooting of Megan Thee Stallion (L) 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 in December for\u00a0shooting hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion\u00a0in the feet and wounding her. Superior […]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/11\/tory-lanez-denied-new-trial-in-megan-thee-stallion-shooting\/","og_site_name":"Ghanamma.com","article_published_time":"2023-05-11T07:02:05+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1600,"height":900,"url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Tory-Lanez-and-Meghan-Thee-Stallion.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Ghana News","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Ghana News","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/11\/tory-lanez-denied-new-trial-in-megan-thee-stallion-shooting\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/11\/tory-lanez-denied-new-trial-in-megan-thee-stallion-shooting\/","name":"Tory Lanez denied new trial in Megan Thee Stallion shooting - Ghanamma.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/11\/tory-lanez-denied-new-trial-in-megan-thee-stallion-shooting\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/11\/tory-lanez-denied-new-trial-in-megan-thee-stallion-shooting\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Tory-Lanez-and-Meghan-Thee-Stallion.jpg","datePublished":"2023-05-11T07:02:05+00:00","dateModified":"2023-05-11T07:02:05+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/6f91dab2e50bbbfe895c93e7e84e7f74"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/11\/tory-lanez-denied-new-trial-in-megan-thee-stallion-shooting\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/11\/tory-lanez-denied-new-trial-in-megan-thee-stallion-shooting\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/11\/tory-lanez-denied-new-trial-in-megan-thee-stallion-shooting\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Tory-Lanez-and-Meghan-Thee-Stallion.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Tory-Lanez-and-Meghan-Thee-Stallion.jpg","width":1600,"height":900},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/11\/tory-lanez-denied-new-trial-in-megan-thee-stallion-shooting\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Tory Lanez denied new trial in Megan Thee Stallion shooting"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/","name":"Ghanamma.com","description":"Ghana mma provides breaking news, top stories in Ghana, Africa, business, entertainment, politics and more.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/6f91dab2e50bbbfe895c93e7e84e7f74","name":"Ghana News","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Ghana News"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023"],"url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/author\/ghanamma\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Tory-Lanez-and-Meghan-Thee-Stallion-1024x576.jpg\")
<\/p>\n