{"id":4982,"date":"2025-11-12T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2025\/11\/12\/tory-lanez-suffered-devastating-blow-as-court-upheld-megan-thee-stallion-conviction\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T23:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:05:00","slug":"tory-lanez-suffered-devastating-blow-as-court-upheld-megan-thee-stallion-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2025\/11\/12\/tory-lanez-suffered-devastating-blow-as-court-upheld-megan-thee-stallion-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"Tory Lanez Suffered Devastating Blow As Court Upheld Megan Thee Stallion Conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/allhiphop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Tory-Lanez-megan-Thee-Stallion-1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\u200c\" href=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/tag\/tory-lanez\">Tory Lanez<\/a> suffered another devastating legal blow on Wednesday when California\u2019s appeals court rejected his bid to overturn his conviction for shooting <a title=\"\u200c\" href=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/tag\/megan-thee-stallion\">Megan Thee Stallion<\/a> in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The three-justice panel from the 2nd District Court of Appeal delivered a crushing 46-page ruling that demolished the defense\u2019s claims of trial errors, cementing the Canadian rapper\u2019s 10-year prison sentence.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old artist now faces mounting legal pressure, as he has been ordered to sit for his third deposition in Megan\u2019s ongoing defamation lawsuit against blogger Milagro Gramz. However, court documents reveal he won\u2019t have to answer questions about the actual shooting incident that landed him behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>The appeals court justices delivered a scathing assessment of the Tory Lanez\/ case, noting the testimony was \u201cmore than sufficient to support the jury\u2019s finding that the rapper personally inflicted great bodily injury on\u201d the Grammy-winning rapper, whose real name is Megan Pete.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling effectively ends Tory Lanez\u2019s hopes of escaping his December 2022 conviction on three felony counts: assault with a semiautomatic firearm, possession of a concealed unregistered firearm and negligent discharge of a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting occurred during a heated July 12, 2020, argument following a gathering at <a title=\"\u200c\" href=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/tag\/kylie-jenner\">Kylie Jenner<\/a>\u2018s Hollywood Hills residence.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\u200c\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/atuuzuMG4kY?si=kf04j-cYYTih2s3t\">During the explosive trial,<\/a> Megan testified that Tory Lanez shot her in both feet after telling her to \u201cdance, b####,\u201d and later offered her $1 million to stay quiet about the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The Houston rapper initially hesitated to speak publicly, admitting she \u201cdidn\u2019t want to be a snitch,\u201d but felt compelled to \u201cdefend my name\u201d when false narratives began circulating.<\/p>\n<p>Tory Lanez\u2019s legal troubles have only intensified since his incarceration.<\/p>\n<p>During an April 2025 deposition related to Megan\u2019s defamation case against Milagro Gramz, the imprisoned rapper turned the proceedings into chaos.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><d class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><br \/>\n<d class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Megan Thee Stallion Tearfully Describes 2020 Shooting\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/atuuzuMG4kY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/d><br \/>\n<\/d><\/figure>\n<p>He repeatedly interrupted attorneys, accused them of planning to leak footage \u201cto fake some sort of narrative,\u201d and deflected basic questions by demanding definitions of simple words like \u201cdiscuss\u201d and \u201capprove.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he agreed that Megan Thee Stallion and Megan Pete were the same person, he responded evasively: \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of Ms. Petes in this world. Which Ms. Pete are you talking about?\u201d He even instructed his lawyer to \u201cGoogle how many Megan Petes there are in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The disruptive behavior backfired spectacularly. <a title=\"\u200c\" href=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/news\/exclusive-tory-lanez-must-sit-for-another-megan-thee-stallion-deposition\/\">A federal judge ordered Tory Lanez to pay Megan\u2019s legal fees for the botched deposition and mandated that his upcoming third deposition be supervised by a magistrate judge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Megan\u2019s legal team described his conduct as \u201cso disruptive, inflammatory, and inconsistent with the basic norms of civil litigation\u201d that it \u201cmade a mockery of the proceedings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The defamation lawsuit centers on allegations that Milagro Gramz, whose real name is Milagro Cooper, acted as the rap star\u2019s \u201cpaid surrogate\u201d to spread \u201cvicious and hateful rumors\u201d about Megan. The case claims Cooper promoted deepfake pornographic videos of the rapper and falsely suggested she suffers from alcoholism and requires a guardian.<\/p>\n<p>In January, a Los Angeles judge granted Megan a five-year restraining order against Tory Lanez, citing \u201cconduct that culminated in [Lanez] shooting approximately five rounds at petitioner that resulted in injuries to her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The order requires him to stay at least 100 yards away from Megan until January 2030.<\/p>\n<p>During emotional testimony for the restraining order, Megan revealed the ongoing toll of the harassment campaign: \u201cI haven\u2019t been at peace since I been shot, and I\u2019m just trying to be un-harassed, not only by the person who shot me, but by the people he\u2019s been paying to continue to harass me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/news\/tory-lanez-suffered-devastating-blow-as-court-upheld-megan-thee-stallion-conviction\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tory Lanez suffered another devastating legal blow on Wednesday when California\u2019s appeals court rejected his bid to overturn his conviction for shooting Megan Thee Stallion in 2020. The three-justice panel from the 2nd District Court of Appeal delivered a crushing 46-page ruling that demolished the defense\u2019s claims of trial errors, cementing the Canadian rapper\u2019s 10-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}