Tory Lanez Sentenced in Megan Thee Stallion Trial

Tory Lanez has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for taking pictures Megan Thee Stallion in 2020, based on NBC Los Angeles. The sentencing was delivered on Aug. 8 after a two-day listening to in Los Angeles. Lanez had confronted a most sentence of greater than 22 years in jail.

“Since I was viciously shot by the defendant, I have not experienced a single day of peace,” Megan mentioned in the course of the trial by way of an announcement learn by Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Kathy Ta on Aug. 7, per NBC Los Angeles. “Slowly but surely, I’m healing and coming back, but I will never be the same.” Meanwhile, legal professionals for Lanez requested that he be placed on probation and allowed to attend a residential substance abuse program. Reps for Lanez and Megan didn’t instantly reply to POPSUGAR’s request for remark.

Prosecutors have been initially searching for a 13-year sentence for Lanez, per The New York Times. “The defendant actively invited harassment of the victim by spreading misinformation to his large following in an effort to galvanize the public against the victim and even the prosecution team without any regard to the dangers it posed,” the prosecution’s sentencing memorandum learn, per The Times. “The defendant has weaponized misinformation to his large following to such a degree that it has left a lasting traumatic impact on the victim.”

The taking pictures trial reached a verdict on Dec. 23, 2022, when a jury discovered Lanez, actual title Daystar Peterson, responsible of three felony counts: assault with a semiautomatic handgun, carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a car, and discharging a firearm with gross negligence, reviews The New York Times.

Megan’s (legally named Megan Jovon Ruth Pete) and Lanez’s taking pictures incident has been making headlines ever because it occurred on July 12, 2020. When reviews of the taking pictures first broke, it was unclear what precisely passed off, solely that Megan was shot in the foot — which the rapper needed to verify with a photograph of her gunshot wound. But on Aug. 20, 2020, throughout an Instagram Live video, Megan alleged that Lanez was the gunman who shot her after claiming that his publicist deliberately tried to unfold false details about the taking pictures, for which she was hospitalized.

Lanez repeatedly denied Megan’s claims through the years, even releasing an album in September 2020 titled “Daystar,” the place he instructed his facet of the incident. On his music “Money Over Fallouts,” Lanez rapped, “Megan people tryna frame me for a shootin’ . . . Gotta see a couple questions: How the f*ck you get shot in your foot, don’t hit no bones or tendons? / How the f*ck your team is tryna to paint me as some whole menace?”

Prior to their trial, Pete addressed her taking pictures on a number of events, the primary notable second (following her Instagram Live video) being her “Saturday Night Live” efficiency in October 2020, the place she advocated for the safety of Black girls. Just a few days later, Pete penned an op-ed for The New York Times titled “Megan Thee Stallion: Why I Speak Up for Black Women,” the place she doubled down on her “protect Black women” stance.

In April 2022, Pete spoke in element concerning the taking pictures for her first tv interview for the reason that incident occurred, sitting with Gayle King on “CBS Mornings.” During the interview, Pete recounted particulars from that summer season night and the occasions that led as much as the taking pictures, together with an argument that she claims started between “the two people in the backseat,” which have been presumably Lanez and her buddy on the time, Kelsey Nicole.

In the weeks main as much as Lanez and Pete’s trial, the latter known as out Drake for seemingly taking a dig at her taking pictures in his music “Circo Loco” that includes 21 Savage. Read forward for extra on what occurred throughout Pete and Lanez’s trial.

What Happened During Megan Thee Stallion and Tory Lanez’s Shooting Trial?

The trial started on Dec. 12, 2022. Lanez’s protection tried to counsel in courtroom that one other shooter might have been in charge for Pete’s accidents. But the “Thot Sh*t” artist recognized Lanez in her highly effective testimony on Dec. 13, 2022.

Pete has been closely scrutinized since she first spoke out concerning the taking pictures and all through the trial. And that scrutiny has been extremely damaging: in her testimony, Pete expressed suicidal ideas, saying, “I wish he would have just shot and killed me, if I knew I would have to go through this torture.”

Pete additionally addressed the explanations that she did not initially inform law enforcement officials that she’d been shot — a degree that had been known as into query again and again. “This was the height of police brutality and George Floyd,” she mentioned, based on Billboard. “I didn’t want to see anybody die. I didn’t want to die.” She added that she was involved about how coming ahead concerning the taking pictures would have an effect on her profession, as nicely.

On Dec. 22, 2022, a day forward of the responsible verdict, her boyfriend Pardison “Pardi” Fontaine posted a message concerning the trial to Instagram Stories, saying, “To any women especially ones of color [who have] suffered an injustice I feel for you . . . When you do find the courage to speak up .. it seems you will be ridiculed .. your credibility will [be] questioned .. your entire past will be held under a magnifying glass.”

The Los Angeles jury deliberated for sooner or later earlier than convicting Lanez. After the jury was dismissed from the courtroom, Lanez’s father known as the prosecutors “evil, wicked people,” and was subsequently faraway from the courtroom, reviews AP. Lanez shall be sentenced at a later date; he faces as much as 22 years in jail, per AP.

“The jury got it right,” Pete’s legal professional Alex Spiro mentioned, based on AP. “I am thankful there is justice for Meg.”

— Additional reporting by Mirel Zaman