Sentencing was delayed Tuesday for rapper Tory Lanez, who was convicted of shooting hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion nearly three years ago.
Superior Court Judge David Herriford reset sentencing for Aug. 7 for the 30-year-old Canadian rap star, whose real name is Daystar Peterson.Defense attorneys asked for the postponement to give them additional time to file a sentencing memorandum.
Lanez was convicted last Dec. 23 of one felony count each of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, having a loaded unregistered firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm with gross negligence. During a contentious hearing last month, the judge rejected the defense's bid for a new trial. One of the rapper's new attorneys, Jose Baez, called Lanez's defense during the trial a "jumbled, bungled mess" and said Lanez's trial attorney, George Mgdesyan, did not have enough time to prepare for trial and ultimately "failed" his client.
"Today I take a stance as an innocent Black man, wrongfully convicted of a crime I did not commit," Lanez said in an Instagram post in April that was addressed to Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón.
Under cross-examination, the Grammy Award-winning singer -- whose real name is Megan Pete -- said she initially had no intention of talking about what had happened and "didn't want to be a snitch," but felt she had to "defend my name" when she saw that people were "making things up" and suggesting that she hadn't been shot.
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