Rapper Tory Lanez was sentenced to 10 decades in state jail Tuesday for capturing hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion in 2020.
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Lanez was convicted in December of shooting Megan Thee Stallion, whose true name is Megan Pete, in her ft in the Hollywood Hills 3 years in the past.
Prosecutors requested Los Angeles County Excellent Courtroom Choose David Herriford to sentence the 31-yr-aged Canadian star to 13 several years in point out jail, though defense lawyers requested probation for their consumer.
Lanez was convicted on Dec. 23 of one particular felony count every single of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, acquiring a loaded unregistered firearm in a car and discharging a firearm with gross carelessness.
Lanez, whose real title is Daystar Peterson, has remained guiding bars considering that he was purchased to be taken into custody shortly just after the jury’s verdict was read through.
In the course of the demo, Megan Thee Stallion testified that Lanez told her to “dance, b—-,” and shot her in the ft in the course of a July 12, 2020, argument pursuing a get-together at Kylie Jenner’s property. She claimed she had no question that Lanez fired the pictures, and that he afterwards supplied her $1 million not to say anything at all.
Less than cross-evaluation, the Grammy Award-successful singer mentioned she originally had no intention of talking about what experienced happened and “did not want to be a snitch,” but felt she experienced to “protect my title” when she saw that men and women were being “generating issues up” and suggesting that she hadn’t been shot.
In a sentencing memorandum, Deputy District Lawyers Kathy Ta and Alexander Bott wrote that Lanez “openly fired 5 rounds, emptying his gun, at a susceptible sufferer” and that the shooting still left Pete “bleeding, hurt and traumatized.”
Lanez “experienced from a mental ailment, liquor-use ailment, at the time of the offense,” in accordance to the defense’s sentencing memorandum, in which his lawyers wrote that “the evidence of guilt is questionable at finest and by no suggests overwhelming.”
For the duration of a hearing in May well, the choose turned down the defense’s bid for a new trial. Jose Baez — who became one particular of the rapper’s attorneys after the demo — said Lanez’s demo attorney, George Mgdesyan, did not have ample time to
prepare for trial and finally “unsuccessful” his consumer.
