Tory Lanez Gets 10-Year Sentence
• Hip-Hop artist Tory Lanez was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a Los Angeles judge on Tuesday, August 8 over the 2020 roadside shooting of Megan Thee Stallion, according to a report by the New York Times.
Lanez, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, was originally scheduled to be sentenced in February, but his legal team filed a motion for a new trial in March that was ultimately denied. In the months that followed, Peterson’s sentencing date has been pushed back several times.
Prosecutors were seeking a 13-year sentence and cited three violations of pre-trial court orders, telling the judge Peterson had “waged a campaign to humiliate and re-traumatize [Megan].” His attorneys asked for him to be sentenced to probation or three years in prison and were seeking probation and mandatory rehab, citing Peterson’s alcohol addiction and childhood trauma.
Peterson/Lanez has been in jail without bond since a jury found him guilty on three felony firearm counts on Dec. 23, 2022, over an incident that happened on July 12, 2020, in which fellow rapper Megan Thee Stallion (real name Megan Pete), alleged Lanez shot her in the feet after they left a party at Kylie Jenner’s Hollywood Hills home.
The Canadian rapper was convicted on one felony count each of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, negligent discharge of a firearm and carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle. A jury of seven women and five men deliberated for two days after hearing arguments from both the prosecution and the defense in a high-profile trial that spanned two weeks, coming right up against the Christmas holiday weekend in 2022. Variety has more details about this situation.
