Tory Lanez‘s sentencing has been pushed again to a different date amid the embattled R&B star’s plans to file a movement for a brand new trial within the Megan Thee Stallion capturing case.
Based on reporter Meghann Cuniff, Lanez was anticipated to look in court docket on Tuesday (February 28) for what was purported to be a sentencing listening to following his conviction on three felonies, however the sentencing will reportedly be delayed with the intention to give his authorized group extra time for a brand new trial.
“Good morning from Los Angeles, the place Tory Lanez is due in court docket at 8:30,” she wrote from exterior the Los Angeles courthouse.
“He gained’t be sentenced for his three felony convictions for capturing Megan Thee Stallion. As an alternative, the sentencing can be delayed to present his new attorneys extra time to arrange a movement for brand spanking new trial.”
It actually was by no means doubtless that Lanez would really be sentenced immediately. Along with the movement for brand spanking new trial, his attorneys and the prosecutors are going to wish to file written briefs that lay out the kind of sentence they assume Lanez ought to get i.e. what number of years in jail.
— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) February 28, 2023
Cuniff continued to elucidate that the listening to was needed for Tory to train his “waive time” and that wanted to be executed in individual.
Lanez agreed “that his sentencing be delayed and that his attorneys want extra time to arrange their new trial movement.”
Tory was spotted in court carrying the standard “orange jail garb” and a black wave cap. There can be a brand new trial movement heard on April 10 to find out if the Canadian singer will get a brand new trial, but when a decide rejects the movement, he can be sentenced on the identical day.
Lanez was discovered responsible by a Los Angeles jury in December after eight days of trial within the Megan Thee Stallion 2020 capturing case.
The three felony fees included assault with a semiautomatic firearm, possession of a hid, unregistered firearm and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
The Sorry 4 What rapper faces as much as 22 years and eight months in jail, in addition to subsequent deportation to his native Canada.
In wake of the trial, Megan Thee Stallion was noticed out and about for the primary time earlier this month celebrating Valentine’s Day along with her boyfriend Pardison Fontaine earlier than attending a shock social gathering for her twenty eighth birthday on February 15.