Imprisoned rapper Tory Lanez has failed in his efforts to overturn his guilty verdict for shooting Megan Thee Stallion five years ago. <\/p>\n
A three-judge panel from the California 2nd District Court of Appeal ruled against 33-year-old Lanez (legal name Daystar Peterson) on Wednesday, reinforcing his convictions on three felony counts stemming from the violent incident in 2020<\/a>. Neither representatives for Peterson or Megan Thee Stallion (legal name Megan Pete) immediately responded to requests for comment on Thursday. <\/p>\n Peterson\u2019s legal team can petition to have the California Supreme Court hear the appeal, despite Wednesday\u2019s decision. <\/p>\n Canadian musician Peterson, who rose to popularity in the late 2000s, was convicted in December 2022<\/a> of assault and weapons offenses. He was convicted of assault with a firearm, illegal possession of a firearm and negligent discharge of a gun, following a two-week trial that featured tearful testimony from Pete<\/a>. <\/p>\n He was sentenced to 10 years in prison<\/a> in August 2023. Peterson is currently carrying out his sentence at the California Men\u2019s Colony near San Luis Obispo. He was relocated there after he was stabbed<\/a> by a fellow inmate<\/a> at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi earlier this year. <\/p>\n \u201cSavage\u201d rapper Pete, on the other hand, is currently at the center of two legal disputes. One is a harassment suit filed against her in 2024, from a cameraman who alleges that<\/a> she forced him to watch her have sex in a car while on tour in Europe. The other is a 2024 defamation lawsuit<\/a> against blogger Milagro Gramz.<\/p>\n The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imprisoned rapper Tory Lanez has failed in his efforts to overturn his guilty verdict for shooting Megan Thee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6066,23318,82371,4943,4941,146,8656,85,46,22322,82370,82368,22359,23114,82369,14073,7128,1661],"class_list":["post-131821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-appeal","tag-assault","tag-california-men","tag-comment","tag-decision","tag-entertainment","tag-firearm","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-megan-thee-stallion","tag-pete","tag-peterson","tag-prison","tag-thursday","tag-tory-lanez","tag-verdict","tag-wednesday","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}