Is Tory Lanez going to jail?

FAMED rapper Tory Lanez was allegedly behind the gun that shot Megan Thee Stallion in the foot at a party in 2020.

On Friday, December 23, 2022, the jury convicted Tory Lanez of all three charges, finding him guilty. 

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Is Tory Lanez going to jail?

Tory Lanez was found guilty of all three felony counts brought forward by this accuser, Megan Pete, better known as rapper Megan Thee Stallion.

These charges included assault, having a concealed gun in a vehicle, and discharge of a firearm with gross negligence.

He now faces up to 23 years in prison and possibly being deported back to Canada.

The trial occurred two years after Megan Thee Stallion accused Lanez of shooting her in the foot.

What happened in the case between Tory Lanez and Megan Thee Stallion?

Opening statements in the trial against rapper Tory Lanez began in December 2022.

Megan and her lawyers allege that Tory Lanez shot at her following an altercation that began in a vehicle outside of a party they’d left in Hollywood Hills.

What followed was a he-said, she-said ordeal on a very public stage.

During the trial, Deputy District Attorney Alexander Bott said the jury should believe Megan’s anguish: “Why would she lie?

“She’s been subjected to a stream of hate. For what? For coming forward as a victim of domestic violence?”

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Lanez claims he didn’t shoot Megan and was framed by her production team.

Lanez’s defense attorney, George Mgdesyan, in his closing statement, called Megan a “liar.”

“She lied about everything in this case from the beginning,” Mgdesyan said. “She lied under oath here.”

Mgdesyan also alleged that his client was trying to, instead, “protect” Megan from her former friend, Kelsey Harris.

Both musicians used song lyrics and social media to allege that the other was lying about the events.

While Megan proceeded to testify in court on Wednesday, December 21, Lanez declared he would not take the witness stand in his defense.

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Did Tory Lanez release a new album?

Tory Lanez released an album titled Daystar, his legal first name, in September 2020.

The album, the fifth studio release by the artist, was mainly used to deny allegations brought by Megan.

Because his album was so clearly about Megan, many critics refused to review it.

In the opening verse to the first song on the album, titled Money Over Fallouts, Lanez sings: “Can’t cry now; I’m gonna laugh later,”

“Girl, you had the nerve to write that statement on that affidavit, knowing I don’t do it/But I’m coming at my truest, tryin’ to keep this shit 200 with ya, shorty/I can’t prove it but them people in yo’ ear/They the true ones that I feel that really got you thinking Tory Lanez would do you in for real.”