Tory Lanez has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the July 2020 shooting of Megan Thee Stallion, but according to Boosie Badazz, he should count himself lucky.
Shortly after Toryâs sentence was handed down in a Los Angeles courtroom on Tuesday (August 8), ending a lengthy and messy legal ordeal, the Baton Rouge rapper took to Instagram Live to react to the news.
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âI think he came out good, bro,â Boosie said while filming himself behind the wheel. âI donât know how California work. I think heâll only do five [years] â thatâs state time. Shit⊠in Louisiana, that n-gga woulda did 40, n-gga. A crime on a woman? Highly televised? 40, n-gga. No cap.
âI got 10 for a third offense marijuana, n-gga. Straight to Angola, n-gga. Not even off of rehab. He lucky he wasnât in Louisiana, boy. I think state time, you only do nothing but half. Five years. Heâll do three years, a lilâ paper, he be back out, stronger than ever ⊠You canât take his talent away, bro. Heâll be back.â
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Tory Lanez (real name Daystar Peterson), who in December 2022 was found guilty on all three counts in the Megan Thee Stallion shooting case, was facing a maximum of 22 years behind bars, as well as deportation to his native Canada.
Prosecutors had asked Judge David Herriford to sentence him to 13 years, while Toryâs lawyers sought the lower term of three years.
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His legal team had also requested probation and enrollment into a drug treatment program, claiming the rapper was suffering from alcoholism â which they said stemmed from childhood trauma â at the time of the alleged crime.
According to Law&Crime reporter Meghann Cuniff, Tory spoke for several minutes during his two-day sentencing hearing, saying he âstill cares dearlyâ for Megan Thee Stallion and they had bonded over the loss of their mothers.
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He also expressed regret for saying âsome very immature things that I shouldnât have said. I revealed some secrets I shouldnât have revealedâ prior to the shooting.
His defense attorney, Jose Baez, referenced Lanezâs race multiple times, lamenting the prospect of sending âanother Black manâ to jail. But Judge Herriford, who is also Black, clarified that âthe ethnicity of the partiesâ played no part in his 10-year sentencing decision.
Herriford said he considered Lanezâs actions after the shooting, which included social media posts and musical releases aimed at Megan, as a major aggravating factor.
Although Boosie Badazz predicts that Tory will spend just three to five years behind bars, the Los Angeles Timesâ James Queally speculates that heâll do closer to eight with time served.
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The âWipe Me Downâ hitmaker had previously remained shtum on the case due to his affinity for both Tory and Megan. But after the former was found guilty last year, he admitted he wasnât surprised by the juryâs verdict â but not necessarily because he believed Meganâs allegations.
âI knew he would be found guilty,â he said in an interview with VladTV. âYou never saw a man and a woman go through something and that man wins. Never. Johnny Depp won. He got that money out that bitch, she went too far.
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âBut domestic violence? Iâve never seen nobody win in court when itâs a woman against a man. Mike Tyson, 2Pac â it goes on. Bro, I didnât wanna say this, but I never seen when something like that happens, that a man comes out victorious on a woman. And I been wanting to say this four interviews ago.â