Tory Lanez's sentencing is getting increasingly delayed as his legal camp is bending over backward to fight for a new trial.
Megan Thee Stallion won the high-profile assault trial against Tory Lanez, who was proven to have shot the female rapper in the foot back in 2020.
Tory Lanez Sentence Delayed
As per multiple reports from NBC News and Meghan Cunniff's blog, the highly-awaited Tory Lanez sentencing has been delayed again after multiple times of reschedulings.
Most recently, the sentencing should have been done last Apr. 10, 2023, but was further delayed by Lanez's legal camp.
This time, Judge David J. Herriford was the one who had it purposely delayed to give time for Tory Lanez to exercise their right to appeal. Now, Tory Lanez's sentencing trial date is scheduled on Apr. 17, 2023, in Los Angeles.
The Tory Lanez Sentencing has been delayed multiple times already. Supposedly, the last day should have been last Apr. 10, 2023, but Herriford decided to extend the date.
Tory Lanez's lawyers asked for another trial last month. In building their case upon it, Herriford added an extension as Lanez's legal camp sought to add to their argument for the huge appeal.
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Tory Lanez Conviction
Last December 2022, in a heated, high-profile, and very publicized trial between Megan Thee Stallion and Canadian rapper Tory Lanez, the internet, and the judge sided with the female rapper in the assault case.
Lanez was convicted of the following crimes
- assault with a semiautomatic firearm,
- discharging a firearm with gross negligence
- carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle.
According to AllHipHop, Tory Lanez can face up to 22 years and eight months in prison, along with deportation, since he is a Canadian citizen. Meanwhile, he remains in jail as his lawyers cook up an extension for a new trial after their loss.
Megan Thee Stallion and Tory Lanez reportedly got into a heated turned bloody altercation last July 2020 after leaving Kylie Jenner's party in California. In the SUV where Lanez, Megan, and her ex-best friend Kelsey Harris were during the shooting, conflicting accounts of what sparked the argument came about. Moments later, when Megan alighted the vehicle, she was shot by Lanez in the foot, severely injuring her as she crawled into the nearby house for help.
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