Rapper Tory Lanez's sentencing for the 2020 shooting that injured rapper Megan Thee Stallion has been postponed again.
Singer Tory Lanez returns to the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center for his trial, Dec. 13, 2022, in Los Angeles.Rapper Tory Lanez's sentencing for the July 2020 shooting that injured rapper Megan Thee Stallion has been postponed again.
He faces up to 22 years and 8 months in prison. According to a motion filed by the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office on May 23, a new California law would by default make Lanez's sentence come in the "middle term" of the potential 22-year sentence, unless "circumstances in aggravation" were proven. But prosecutors argued in the motion for a harsher sentence for the rapper.
Lanez, a popular rapper whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, was initially charged in October 2020 with one felony count each of assault with a semi-automatic firearm and carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle, according to charging documents obtained by ABC News. "Personal use of a firearm" is not a separate charge, but a sentencing enhancement linked to the first count that could increase Lanez's possible sentence.
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