Tory Lanez’s Lawyers Request Probation For Rapper
Tory Lanez’s lawyers are looking to have the rapper released on probation and put into a drug placement program ahead of his sentencing for the Megan Thee Stallion shooting case.
According to Law & Crime reporter Meghann Cuniff, the rapper’s attorneys, Jose Baez and Ed Welbourn, filed a memo on Tuesday (August 1) where they claim Lanez (real name Daystar Peterson) was suffering from alcoholism at the time of the alleged shooting. Included in the memo is an interview that Lanez had with a psychologist in jail last month. The rapper says his childhood, which had violence and abuse, was the reason he took to alcohol as a solution. The memo also states that he used both alcohol and marijuana to “cope with stress” and the “unresolved traumas from his childhood.”
Part of the traumatic childhood Lanez experienced was when his mother died when he was 11. He also said he was stabbed and shot when he was a teenager. His lawyers argue that “assuming the allegations in this case are true,” his alcoholism played a “significant role in the commission of the offense.”
Cuniff tweeted about the memo stating, “It’s an interesting mix of ‘I’m innocent, but assuming I’m guilty, it’s because my alcoholism is a mental disorder.'”
Here’s my article on Tory Lanez’s sentencing memo. It’s an interesting mix of “I’m innocent, but assuming I’m guilty, it’s because my alcoholism is a mental disorder.” https://t.co/SueeXpYhIL
— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) August 3, 2023
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Lanez was found guilty by a Los Angeles jury in December for the Megan Thee Stallion 2020 shooting case. He was convicted of three felony charges, including assault with a semiautomatic firearm, possession of a concealed, unregistered firearm, and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
Megan Thee Stallion spoke up about the shooting in her cover story for Elle last month. “I don’t want to call myself a victim,” she said. “As I reflect on the past three years, I view myself as a survivor because I have truly survived the unimaginable. Not only did I survive being shot by someone I trusted and considered a close friend, but I overcame the public humiliation of having my name and reputation dragged through the mud by that individual for the entire world to see.”
Lanez faces up to 22 years and eight months in prison and deportation to his native Canada.
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