Court denies Rapper Tory Lanez's appeal of his conviction in Megan Thee Stallion shooting

A California tribunal has denied rapper Tory Lanez's entreaty of his blameworthy verdict for firing a weapon astatine Megan Thee Stallion

LOS ANGELES -- A California tribunal connected Wednesday denied rapper Tory Lanez's entreaty of his blameworthy verdict connected charges helium fired a weapon astatine Megan Thee Stallion.

A three-judge sheet from the California 2nd District Court of Appeal issued a ruling saying they affirm successful afloat his condemnation connected 3 felony counts. They did not publically merchandise an sentiment with their reasoning.

In December 2022, Lanez was convicted of 3 felonies: battle with a semiautomatic firearm; having a loaded, unregistered firearm successful a conveyance and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.

Megan testified during the proceedings that successful July 2020, aft they near a enactment astatine Kylie Jenner’s Hollywood Hills home, Lanez fired the weapon astatine the backmost of her feet and shouted for her to creation arsenic she walked distant from an SUV successful which they had been riding unneurotic with 2 others.

She had bullet fragments successful some feet that had to beryllium surgically removed. It wasn’t until months aft the shooting that she publically identified Lanez arsenic the idiosyncratic who had fired the gun.

Attorneys for Lanez, whose ineligible sanction is Daystar Peterson, did not instantly respond to a petition for remark connected Wednesday's ruling. They tin petition to person the California Supreme Court perceive the appeal. A typical for Megan besides didn't instantly reply an email seeking comment.

Lanez is serving a 10-year condemnation astatine the California Men's Colony adjacent San Luis Obispo, California. He was moved determination aft helium was stabbed by a chap inmate astatine California Correctional Institution successful Tehachapi.

Authorities did not specify however Lanez was attacked, but a connection posted connected the rapper’s Instagram relationship Monday evening said Lanez was stabbed 14 times and some his lungs collapsed.

The 32-year-old Canadian Lanez began releasing mixtapes successful 2009 and saw a dependable emergence successful popularity, moving connected to large statement albums, 2 of which reached the apical 10 connected Billboard’s charts.

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