Tory Lanez has been denied new counsel after potential defense lawyer Ronda Renee Dixon accused his current reps of taking advantage of the singer/rapper. According to legal journalist Meghann Cuniff, Lanez wants Dixon to step in & work under Jose Baez, replacing Matthew Barhoma.
On Wednesday (July 12), Cuniff tweeted out the judge’s decision & also shared a prior conversation between herself & Dixon.
“These guys are just taking advantage of [Lanez],” Cuniff claims Dixon stated. “They’ve had him sign powers of attorneys. They’re acting on his behalf. … They’re not really asking him what he wants.”
Cuniff also recalled Dixon’s meeting with the 30-year-old entertainer. “His eyes were black. He was totally despondent,” Dixon said. “He told me he wanted to go to state prison. I said, ‘You want to go to state prison? Why?'” to which Lanez responded “At least I’ll be able to go out in the yard & talk to people.'”
“That upset me. I don’t think he’s guilty,” she admitted.
In Dixon’s motion to join Lanez’s legal team, she argued that the Sorry 4 What rapper has been treated poorly while incarcerated because of his celebrity status.
“Merely because he is well known, the Sheriff has decided that Mr. Peterson is of such great threat that he must be confined in the same manner as those convicted of serial rape charges & murder,” Dixon wrote in her motion.
Sentencing was originally scheduled for Jan. 2, a month after he was found guilty & then pushed to Feb. 28 because he changed counsel. During that court date, Lanez filed a motion for a new trial, to which he was denied.
Lanez is now facing a maximum sentence of 22 years & 8 months after being found guilty of shooting Megan Thee Stallion in the foot. He also faces possible deportation to Canada.
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