Tory Lanez’s Request for New Trial in Megan Taking pictures Case Denied

Tory Lanez’s request for a brand new trial within the Megan Thee Stallion capturing case has been denied.

Based on paperwork obtained by XXL, prosecutors rejected Tory Lanez’s movement for a brand new trial citing that the proof within the case was “overwhelming with a number of eyewitnesses figuring out him because the shooter, the gun used within the assault discovered at his toes and recorded apologies for the capturing.” Moreover, prosecutors said within the 16-page doc, filed on Thursday (April 6) in Los Angeles Superior Courtroom in California, that “the defendant (Tory) has did not display any error by the trial court docket in help of its movement for a brand new trial.”

Prosecutors contend that there have been no single “occasion of error within the trial court docket,” together with the defendant’s sixth Modification proper to counsel being violated, the admission of DNA proof being improper or that the court docket didn’t ‘chill’ the defendant’s proper to testify.

“The proof offered at trial was correctly admitted, and the defendant’s claims of errors and violations of his constitutional rights are with out benefit,” the assertion continued. “The decision reached by the jury was primarily based on credible proof and was supported by the legislation.”

“Due to this fact, the Individuals respectfully urge the court docket to uphold the jury’s verdict and deny the defendant’s movement for a brand new trial,” prosecutors concluded.

XXL has reached out to attorneys for Tory Lanez and Megan Thee Stallion for remark.

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 automobile and discharging a firearm in a grossly negligent method to trigger bodily harm. The case stems from the July 2020 incident through which Tory fired 5 rounds at Megan throughout a heated argument after they left Kylie Jenner’s occasion within the Hollywood Hills. Megan sustained accidents to her foot; photographs of her injured toes, bloodied towels and different trial proof had been posted on social media.

Final month, Tory Lanez filed an attraction within the hopes of getting a brand new trial. The embattled rapper’s authorized identified a number of cases that would have tainted the jury, unfairly resulting in the responsible verdict. For one, jurors had been proven a shirtless photograph of Tory that displayed the rapper’s tattoo of an AK-47. Tory’s crew reportedly believes that was carried out on function by the prosecution to point out Tory likes weapons.

Los Angeles County Superior Courtroom Decide David J. Herriford is scheduled to listen to Tory Lanez’s new trial request on Monday (April 10) in Los Angeles.