Tory Lanez opened up for the primary time from behind bars a couple of potential authorized breakthrough and a renewed push to overturn his conviction within the Megan Thee Stallion taking pictures case.
The rapper says he has newly surfaced proof that his staff says was by no means handed over in the course of the trial.
Talking from California Males’s Colony in San Luis Obispo throughout an interview with NBC Information, the Canadian rapper mentioned, “I consider not solely that I used to be wrongfully convicted, however the quantity of recent proof that has emerged since that trial, I feel, has been overwhelming.”
Lanez’s attorneys are getting ready to file a recent enchantment with the California Supreme Court docket, arguing that key forensic proof, particularly bullet fragments allegedly faraway from Megan’s foot, was by no means turned over to the protection.
The declare facilities on a Brady violation, a authorized customary requiring prosecutors to reveal all probably exculpatory proof to the protection.
Legal professional Crystal Morgan mentioned the lacking fragments have been documented in a pathology report from Cedars Sinai Medical Heart. Based on her, the report states the fragments have been positioned in proof baggage and handed to hospital safety.
“It’s lacking from our date-stamped official copy of proof from the prison trial, which is important as a result of this specific piece of paper says that they take away fragments and place them in baggage and gave them to a safety guard that works at Cedars Sinai,” Morgan mentioned.
The report surfaced throughout a separate defamation lawsuit filed by Megan in opposition to blogger Milagro Gramz.
Gramz’s lawyer uncovered the July 14, 2020, doc, which refers to a hospital safety worker retrieving an proof bag containing a “overseas physique.”
“Once I discuss my case, I don’t need it to be taken as me coming at her, as a result of it’s not that,” he mentioned. “I’m simply asking for anyone within the system to take a look at my case and take a look at the proof and ask if this was honest.”
Final month, the California Second District Court docket of Appeals rejected Lanez’s preliminary enchantment, stating there was “no ineffective help of counsel or prejudicial trial court docket error.”
His authorized staff is now hoping the state’s highest court docket will take into account the newly found proof. Lanez can be looking for clemency or a pardon from California Governor Gavin Newsom.
In the meantime, Megan has continued to talk publicly in regards to the emotional toll the case has taken, and beforehand secured a restraining order in opposition to Lanez, alleging he was utilizing third events to harass her from jail.
