LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge on Tuesday denied a motion for a new trial from lawyers for rapper Tory Lanez, who was convicted of 3 felonies in December for shooting hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion in the feet & wounding her.
Superior Court Judge Herriford rejected arguments from lawyers for Lanez that evidence was wrongly admitted at the trial he presided over. He said that the exclusion of the disputed evidence would not have made a difference at the trial.
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 & discharging a firearm with gross negligence. He could get up to 22 years in prison & faces deportation to his native Canada.
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 “I could be your son. I could be your brother.”
No sentencing date has been set.
Lanez began releasing mixtapes in 2009 & saw a steady rise in popularity, moving on to major-label albums. His last 2 reached the top 10 on Billboard’s charts.
Megan Thee Stallion was already a major rising star at the time of the shooting & her prominence has surged since. She won a Grammy for best new artist in 2021 & she had No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 with her own song “Savage,” featuring Beyoncé & as a guest on Cardi B’s “WAP.”
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