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Tory Lanez has suffered another pair of courtroom losses tied to his 2020 shooting of Megan Thee Stallion and the controversy that followed.
On Tuesday (Nov. 12), the California Court of Appeal upheld Lanez’s felony convictions and 10-year prison sentence for shooting the Houston rapper, according to legal affairs journalist Meghann Cuniff. The ruling closes one of Lanez’s last major opportunities to challenge the verdict that sent him to prison in August 2023.
Earlier this year, Lanez — born Daystar Peterson — filed two habeas petitions seeking to introduce new evidence, including claims involving his driver and a purported new statement from a security guard for Megan’s former friend Kelsey Nicole Harris. Both petitions were denied.
Lanez’s legal issues don’t stop there. A federal judge also denied his request to skip a deposition in Megan Thee Stallion’s ongoing defamation lawsuit against blogger Milagro Gramz — a vocal Lanez supporter throughout his 2022 trial.
Megan accuses Gramz of spreading false information about the shooting and her testimony, allegedly with Lanez’s help. Her team claims Lanez has financially backed the blogger to push conspiracy theories aimed at discrediting her and undermining his conviction.
Lanez’s attorneys have repeatedly argued that testifying could interfere with his criminal appeal – which likely won’t be an issue now – but Judge Lisette M. Reid rejected that reasoning in an Oct. 30 order. The judge ruled that Lanez must sit for questioning about his communications with Gramz — not the shooting itself — though he can plead the Fifth on a “question-by-question basis.”
The defamation trial against Gramz is set to begin Nov. 17. Meanwhile, Lanez remains behind bars, facing mounting legal pressure on multiple fronts.
Even from prison, it looks like the fallout from the Megan Thee Stallion shooting is far from over.
