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Tory Lanez denied new trial in Megan Thee Stallion shooting

Published:Tuesday | May 9, 2023 | 7:47 PM
This combination photo shows rapper Tory Lanez performing at the Festival d'ete de Quebec, July 11, 2018, in Quebec City, Canada (left) and Megan Thee Stallion at the premiere of "P-Valley," June 2, 2022, in Los Angeles. A Los Angeles judge on Tuesday, May 9, 2023, denied a motion for a new trial from lawyers for Lanez, who was convicted of three felonies in December for shooting hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion in the feet and wounding her. (Photos by Amy Harris, left, Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

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 three felonies in December for shooting hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion in the feet and 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 and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.

He could get up to 22 years in prison and 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.”

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