They claim his “gangster rapper persona” was used to suggest a “criminal propensity.”

'The only acceptable remedy for this miscarriage of justice is a new trial,” reads the motion, which also alleges that prosecutors unfairly portrayed Lanez as “a gun-wielding career criminal” and drew attention to an AK-47 tattoo on his chest. Their motion for a new trial includes a statement from content creator Joshua Farias, who claims he was managing Lanez’s account at the time.

(Lanez’s defence was that it was Harris who fired – a claim both she and Megan denied.)īaez and Barhoma said the judge should not have allowed the jury to see the post because the defence did not have time to show who made the comment. They also claim prosecutors ambushed the defence at trial with a September 2020 Instagram post that appeared to show Lanez admitting that Megan’s then-friend Kelsey Harris was not the one who fired the gun. TORY LANEZ: Full iHeartRadio.ca Music News Coverage (A California law barring “creative expression” evidence at trials came into effect nine days after Lanez was convicted.) Those lawyers, Jose Baez and Matthew Barhoma, argue the judge “impermissibly chilled” Lanez’s right to testify in his own defence by ruling that prosecutors could introduce his lyrics and a bloody 2022 music video (for “Cap”) during cross-examination.

28 and then to April 10 to allow his new lawyers to review materials. His sentencing was originally set for Jan.

since the verdict, faces up to 22 years and eight months in prison and deportation to Canada. Lanez, who has been in custody at the Men’s Central Jail in L.A. The 30-year-old Ontario native, whose real name is Daystar Peterson, was found guilty just before Christmas of assault with a firearm, carrying a loaded and unregistered firearm and discharging a firearm with gross negligence. Three months after he was put behind bars for the 2020 shooting of Megan Thee Stallion, Canadian rapper Tory Lanez filed a motion Wednesday for a new trial.

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