Tory Lanez has asked a judge to vacate his 10-year prison sentence for shooting Megan Thee Stallion following his bodyguard’s recent statement that he didn’t see who fired the gun.
Lanez, who is currently incarcerated at a California prison and has recently hired new legal representation, has petitioned for a re-sentencing regarding his conviction, according to court reporter Meghann Cuniff.
The filing contains a number of other arguments, including that Tory’s “childhood trauma” should be considered by the appellate court and that his status as a non-American citizen who now faces deportation to Canada counts as discrimination.
The petition will be considered at the same time as the rapper’s appeal, with an opening brief scheduled for Boxing Day (December 26). It is unlikely the court will rule on the matter for a number of months.
Los Angeles attorney David Zarmi, a certified appellate specialist who is not involved in the case, reviewed the petition for Legal Affairs and Trials and said “it seems unlikely the Court would accept this.”
“This would ordinarily be an ineffective assistance of counsel argument, which they don’t raise in a way that the Court would consider it, and which would normally be accompanied by a declaration for trial counsel describing his motives,” Zarmi said.
“They are being creative by arguing that because nobody bothered to check what [Tory Lanez’s bodyguard, Jaquan] Smith’s testimony would be before trial counsel stipulated that Smith would not testify.
“However, there is no declaration attached to indicate that trial counsel did not know what Smith’s testimony would be. Nor is there even a declaration from the defendant. It seems unlikely the Court would accept this.”
Earlier this week, Lanez’s bodyguard/driver Jaquan Smith filed a sworn statement regarding the July 2020 shooting. Smith had not testified during the trial.
In his statement, Smith said he “did not see who shot the weapon” but claimed that he witnessed Tory trying to wrestle the gun from Kelsey Harris, Megan Thee Stallion’s former friend and assistant, before the shots rang out.
Harris had previously claimed that Lanez shot Megan, before largely taking the fifth amendment when she was called to testify.
In a lengthy Instagram Live earlier this week, Megan addressed Smith’s statement and Lanez’s repeated attempts to overturn his conviction, saying: “I know who shot me. I said who shot me, and that’s why the fuck you in jail.”
Awwwh lickle man desperate to get out.
Too bad midget boy
I don’t have ANYTHING against this dude & I’ve NEVER wished Prison on ANYBODY, cus I’ve spent over 20 years in prison myself, but this STUPID/FRAUDULENT RETARD belongs right where the fuq he’s at…
He REALLY tried to advance his career, thinking that people were gonna look at him as some type of Gangsta for busting his gun…
Why he chose her to do it too tho will never make sense to me…
If she was a civilian, he probably would have gotten away with it…
Then he woulda rapped about it in EVERYONE of his songs, bragging how he clapped ol’girl in the foot, and how he’ll pull the trigger with no problem blah blah blah….
It’s like them dudes who get shot all to sh!t, and then make a rap career about it…
Funny thing is, most of the people who actually buy these people’s music think that their CERTIFIED GANGSTAS lmfao….
That why Hip Hop is all fuqed up like it is now…
When I see a muhfuqa that’s been all shot to sh!t, I don’t see a Gangsta…
I see a mofo who fuqed over the wrong person or went against the code, and somebody tried to take their ass off this Earth…
They just so happened to be brought into the right hospital, where the right Doctors saved their ass…
Otherwise we’re be calling the situation for what it really is… “Such & such got smoked, cus he did such & such… Not this mofo’s a Gangsta cus he survived 9 shots…
In Torys case tho, it’s the reverse…. He’s the actual shooter, but he chose a victim that posed ZERO threat to him….
In the streets it’s not about shooting or killing, as much as it’s about WHO Ur shooting or killing.
Dude deserves to do EVERY fuqN SECOND of that sentence…
And I’ll stake my life on it “that when he comes home, he’ll try to use that situation to make him look like a Gangsta in his raps.
You have way too much time on your hands. Weirdo. Type less. Less caps. Don’t ever admit to spending any time in prison. Say you didn’t and be ashamed. You get zero props for being a fuck up. Maybe brush up on some grammar too. They’re. Their. Very different. Peace.
You are worried about a persona’s grammar on a Hip Hop site. lol You are dumb.
What a worthless piece of sh*t. Do the crime do the time. Period
So Torys legal team are saying he didn’t do it but that just in case he did so it it was because of childhood trauma.
Meanwhile, Tory Lanez getting his salad tossed by Tyrone and Jamal.
He didn’t do it, Her foot was not injured. She never received surgery nothing about her foot looked off or swollen. I literally had an arm break and I was out of commission for 3 months, I even had someone say I looked like I had gotten shot with the way the swelling and injury was. He didn’t do it, Let him out. Too many stories switching and lies being told. He did his time for this, it’s time to let him be free fr.
He didn’t do it, Her foot was not injured. She never received surgery nothing about her foot looked off or swollen. I literally had an arm break and I was out of commission for 3 months, I even had someone say I looked like I had gotten shot with the way the swelling and injury was. He didn’t do it, Let him out. Too many stories switching and lies being told. He did his time for this, it’s time to let him be free fr. They’ll prolly make fake videos and surgery stories after this 😒