November 13, 2025
A 3-judge panel of the 2nd District Court docket of Attraction rejected Lanez’s direct enchantment.
A California appellate court docket has closed the door on rapper Tory Lanez’s most up-to-date enchantment efforts.
A 3-judge panel of the 2nd District Court docket of Attraction rejected the case introduced by Lanez (actual identify Daystar Peterson), a direct enchantment of three felony counts linked to the taking pictures of Megan Pete, often known as rapper Megan Thee Stallion. The 46-page choice said plainly that Lanez’s assertions of prosecutorial misconduct have been baseless.
“The file doesn’t assist Peterson’s rivalry that prosecutorial misconduct interfered together with his “proper to Battle free counsel,” the choice said.
Peterson’s authorized staff questioned the validity of key proof introduced to the jury. Subsequently, the enchantment sought to throw out the proof, triggering a brand new trial. The court docket upheld the important thing trial rulings, together with admission of the sufferer’s testimony, earlier taped statements by a witness, and Instagram posts made by Lanez.
The appellate court docket rejected the necessity to reexamine proof stating, “the trial court docket didn’t abuse its discretion in admitting proof.”
Moreover, the court docket choice strengthened the prosecutor’s narrative which is commonly questioned by Lanez’s followers.
“Substantial proof established, past an inexpensive doubt, that the accidents Peterson inflicted on Pete have been greater than reasonable hurt. . . The orthopedic surgeon who operated on Pete’s toes testified at trial and the jury noticed x-rays and a report of the operation.”
The rapper was charged with assault with a semiautomatic firearm, possession of a loaded and unregistered firearm in a car, and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
On the time of his December 2022 conviction, Lanez was instantly sentenced to 10 years in jail. He was not too long ago transferred to California Males’s Colony after a prison-stabbing incident.
For Lanez, the choice decreases his remaining choices to bypass the ruling. Additional makes an attempt require petitioning the California Supreme Court docket or pursuing habeas aid, neither of which supply a direct decision.
For now, Lanez’s 10-year sentence stays. The taking pictures case seems almost closed within the courts. Peterson can be up for parole in 2029.
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