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A court has rejected rapper Tory Lanez’s appeal of his conviction for pointing a gun at a fellow musician. Megan Thee Stallion,
A three-judge panel of the California Second District Court of Appeal issued a ruling Wednesday, saying they affirmed Lenz’s full conviction on three felony counts.
He did not publicly issue any opinion accompanying his reasoning.
was a rapper convicted in December 2022 Assault with a semiautomatic firearm, possession of a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle, and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
Megan, whose real name is Megan Peet, testified during the trial that Lanez fired shots at her after she left a party at Kylie Jenner’s home in the Hollywood Hills in July 2020.
She said Lanez, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, pointed a gun at the back of her legs and yelled at her to dance.
He had to undergo surgery to remove bullet fragments from both his legs.
He did not publicly identify Lenz as the shooter until months after the incident.
Lawyers for Lenz 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.
After this they were taken there He was stabbed by a fellow prisoner at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi.
Authorities did not say how Lanez was attacked, but a message posted on the rapper’s Instagram account said Lanez was stabbed 14 times and both of his 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.