{"id":41180,"date":"2025-11-13T23:32:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T23:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/appeal-over-megan-thee-stallion-shooting-fails\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T23:32:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T23:32:42","slug":"appeal-over-megan-thee-stallion-shooting-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/appeal-over-megan-thee-stallion-shooting-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal over Megan Thee Stallion shooting fails"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Tory Lanez had argued his trial for shooting Megan Thee Stallion was unfair<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Rapper Tory Lanez’s appeal against his conviction and sentence for shooting Megan Thee Stallion in the foot has failed.<\/p>\n

The Canadian hip-hop star argued that errors had been made during his trial over the 2020 attack, and that his 10-year prison term was too harsh.<\/p>\n

But a panel of judges in Los Angeles rejected his claims and said he had not been the victim of a miscarriage of justice.<\/p>\n

Lanez, real name Daystar Peterson, was sentenced in 2023<\/a> after being found guilty of three gun-related charges. He has always insisted he is innocent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lanez and fellow musician Megan Thee Stallion, real name Megan Pete, <\/b>got into an argument as they drove away from a pool party at reality star Kylie Jenner’s Hollywood mansion.<\/p>\n

Megan told jurors she had demanded to be let out of the vehicle, prompting Lanez to start shooting at the ground and shouting at her to “dance”. <\/p>\n

She was hit, and required surgery to remove bullet fragments from her foot.<\/p>\n

Megan admitted during the trial that she had initially said she’d “stepped on glass” because she feared that no one would believe Lanez had shot her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Megan Thee Stallion recently appeared on the US edition of Love Island<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Lawyers for Lanez had argued that the original trial judge should not have allowed various pieces of evidence to be put in front of the jury.<\/p>\n

These included certain questions put to Megan during her witness testimony, discussion of Lanez’s tattoos and a reference to a previous criminal case in Florida.<\/p>\n

They also argued that an error was made when jurors were given instructions on the charges in the case before considering their verdict.<\/p>\n

The appeal judges rejected all of Lanez’s arguments and said that, where mistakes had been made by the court, they would not have affected the overall outcome of the case. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tory Lanez is serving a 10-year sentence<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The case divided the hip-hop world with rappers – including 50 Cent<\/a> and Iggy Azalea – appearing to take sides in the conflict. Some of them wrote to the court to ask for leniency in Lanez’s sentencing. <\/p>\n

Lanez had seven US top 10 albums in the seven years before his conviction. He has released new music<\/a> while he’s been in prison.<\/p>\n

He was also stabbed 14 times by another inmate in May this year, and a convicted killer was named as a suspect in the attack<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Lanez is also due to be interviewed by lawyers in a defamation case Megan has brought against a blogger who she accuses of spreading false narratives about her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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