In a brand new try to overturn a responsible verdict handed down in March, the Canadian hip-hop artist Tory Lanez is pleading with a Los Angeles courtroom for a brand new trial. ABC Information experiences Lanez is scheduled to seem earlier than a choose on Might 15, and his attorneys are anticipated to argue for a brand new trial for the rapper convicted in Dec. 2022 of capturing rapper Megan Thee Stallion.

Attorneys Jose Baez and Matthew Barhoma filed a movement for a brand new trial in March, arguing that some proof and statements offered on the trial had been prejudicial to their consumer, together with an Instagram submit the place Lanez’s verified account commented on the case and a photograph of Lanez’s gun tattoo. In addition they employed new DNA specialists who declare Lanez’s DNA was excluded.

Court docket reporter Meghann Cuniff, who turned immediately generally known as Meg The Reporter throughout her case protection, has been updating followers on new developments. In a sequence of tweets, Cuniff gave new updates, together with Choose Herriford asking the attorneys why they didn’t object to those claims in the course of the preliminary trial.

One other theme: Choose Herriford asking why Lanez’s lawyer didn’t object in trial. That’s his query to Barhoma and Baez in regards to the new skilled they employed to investigate the DNA. New skilled says Lanez’s DNA was excluded. Herriford needs to know why nobody objected to DNA throughout trial.

— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) Might 8, 2023

Throughout a listening to in April, a choose stated if the movement for a brand new trial is denied, the rapper might be sentenced inside 30 days of Monday’s listening to.

The rapper, whose actual identify is Daystar Peterson, faces as much as 22 years and eight months in jail. Nonetheless, his sentencing has been delayed after hiring new attorneys. Throughout the headlining trial, Lanez selected to not take the witness stand and pleaded not responsible as his protection staff argued that he wasn’t the shooter.

He was later discovered responsible on all three felony counts filed in opposition to him, together with assault with a semi-automatic firearm, carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a automobile, and discharging a firearm with gross negligence. Since then, the Stallion, whose actual identify is Megan Pete, has been quiet on the case till a latest interview with Elle Journal, the place she says she doesn’t “need to name myself a sufferer.”