Tory Lanez’s sentencing in taking pictures Megan Thee Stallion has been delayed once more at the moment, and in keeping with the Los Angeles Deputy District Lawyer, Megan needs the case to lastly finish.
On Monday (April 17), authorized reporter Meghann Cuniff, who has been reporting on the case for the reason that starting, tweeted that in a listening to, Superior Court docket Decide David Herriford ordered Tory Lanez’s lawyer to file their complement to their current movement for a brand new trial by Might 1. Prosecutors would then have to reply by Might 3. Afterward, Decide Hariford will then contemplate Tory Lanez’s movement for a brand new trial on Might 8.
Outdoors of the courtroom, L.A. Deputy DA Alexander Bott instructed reporters that regardless of the continued delays, he feels that Tory Lanez shall be sentenced in a well timed method. He added that Megan Thee Stallion needs this taking pictures case to lastly finish.
“We wish to make it possible for Megan will get closure as shortly as attainable,” he stated, in keeping with Meghann. “She needs to place an finish to this chapter of her life.”
XXL has reached out to Megan Thee Stallion attorneys for remark.
Earlier this month, prosecutors submitted court docket paperwork opposing Tory Lanez’s enchantment for a brand new trial. In accordance with paperwork obtained by XXL, prosecutors responded to Tory’s movement for a brand new trial and rejected it, citing that proof within the case was “overwhelming” with “a number of eyewitnesses figuring out Tory because the shooter, the gun used within the assault discovered at his ft and his recorded apologies for the taking pictures.”
Tory Lanez’s attorneys filed an enchantment in March within the hopes of getting a brand new trial. The rapper-singer’s authorized workforce imagine that they have been a number of cases throughout the trial that might have tainted the jury and unfairly cause them to the responsible verdict.
Tory has been in jail with out bond since a jury convicted him on Dec. 23, 2022, of 1 felony depend of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a car and discharging a firearm in a grossly negligent method to trigger bodily damage. The costs are from a July 2020 incident during which Tory fired a handgun at Megan throughout a heated argument after they left Kylie Jenner’s get together within the Hollywood Hills.
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