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A California The court refused the rapper on Wednesday tory lanezAppeal of guilty verdict on charges on which he fired a gun Megan Thee Stallion,
A three-judge panel of the California Second District Court of Appeal issued a decision saying they fully affirm his conviction on three felony counts. He did not publicly issue any opinion accompanying his reasoning.
In December 2022, Lenz was convicted of three felonies: assault with a semiautomatic firearm; Possession of a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
Megan testified during the trial that in July 2020, after leaving a party at Kylie Jenner’s Hollywood Hills At the house, Lanez pointed a gun at the back of her legs and yelled at her to dance as she walked away from an SUV in which they were riding with two other men.
There were bullet fragments in both his legs which had to be surgically removed. He did not publicly identify Lenz as the person who fired the gun until months after the shooting.
An attorney for Lenz, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday’s ruling. They can petition the California Supreme Court to hear the appeal. A representative for Megan also did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
Lenz is serving a 10-year sentence at the California Men’s Colony near San Luis Obispo, California. He was taken there to the California Correctional Institution at Tehachapi after being stabbed by a fellow inmate.
Authorities did not say how Lanez was attacked, but a message posted on the rapper’s Instagram account Monday evening said Lanez was stabbed 14 times and both lungs collapsed.
32-year-old Canadian Lanez began releasing mixtapes in 2009 and has seen a steady rise in popularity, leading to major label albums, two of which reached the top 10 on Billboard’s charts.