Rapper Tory Lanez has filed an attraction after being discovered responsible of taking pictures Megan Thee Stallion.
In court docket paperwork obtained by Us Weekly on Wednesday, February 28, Lanez’s authorized workforce cited “erroneous admission of evidence” and “prosecutorial misconduct” as grounds for the attraction.
The submitting claimed that Megan, 29, was “allowed to inappropriately answer questions in a narrative format” in the course of the December 2022 trial, “including testimony concerning irrelevant and inadmissible matters, such as her feelings regarding the circumstances of the incident.”
Lanez’s attorneys argued that “sympathy for the victim is out of place during an objective determination of guilt.” They claimed that in closing arguments, “prosecutors made multiple improper appeals to emotion and sympathy for the victim” which “had no bearing on [Lanez’s] guilt or innocence.”
A jury discovered Lanez responsible in December 2022 on three counts associated to the July 2020 taking pictures: assault with a semiautomatic handgun, having a loaded and unregistered firearm in a car and gross negligence in discharging his firearm. He was sentenced to 10 years in jail in August 2023.
Megan has opened up how the taking pictures affected her each mentally and bodily.
“I was shot in both of my feet and I had to get surgery to get the s–t taken out, to get the bullets taken out,” the musician shared through Instagram Reside in July 2020. “I had to get surgery. It was super scary. It was just the worst experience of my life and it’s not funny.”
Megan later penned an essay for Elle in August 2023, detailing the harassment she endured within the wake of the taking pictures from those that didn’t imagine her story.
“I have truly survived the unimaginable. Not only did I survive being shot by someone I trusted and considered a close friend, but I overcame the public humiliation of having my name and reputation dragged through the mud by that individual for the entire world to see,” she wrote, including that Lanez “laughed and joked about [her] trauma” and “peddled false narratives” concerning the taking pictures “for years.”
Nicki Minaj inserted herself into the drama when she seemingly questioned the validity of Megan’s account of the taking pictures in her diss monitor “Big Foot,” which she launched final month.
“This bitch fell off, I said, ‘Get up on your good foot,’” Minaj rapped earlier than asking, “F–k you get shot with no scar?”
The discharge got here after Megan seemingly threw shade at Minaj’s husband, Kenneth Petty, who’s a registered intercourse offender, by rapping on her monitor “Hiss” that “Hoes don’t be mad at Megan / These hoes mad at Megan’s Law.”
Megan’s Legislation was enacted by the US authorities within the ‘90s and requires legislation enforcement authorities to make data relating to registered intercourse offenders accessible to the general public.
Drake has additionally come underneath fireplace for seemingly referencing the taking pictures in his music. In his November 2022 track “Circo Loco,” he rapped, “This bitch lie ‘bout getting shots but she still a stallion / She don’t even get the joke butt she still smiling.’”
Lil Yachty, who cowrote the tune, subsequently denied that the lyric was a dig at Megan.
“It’s not about Megan, it’s about women lying about their butt shots saying it’s real when it’s fake,” he mentioned through Instagram Reside in November 2022, including that he knew Drake, 37, was “not going to address” the backlash himself.
Drake raised eyebrows once more by sharing a photograph of Lanez through his Instagram Story on Monday, February 26, with the caption “3 you.” Some social media customers speculated that Drake’s caption meant, “Free you.”
“Men that bond over dislike of someone else always been weird to me. Especially when it’s dislike of a woman. Drake and Tory used to diss each other on songs. Now it’s ‘free my dawg,’” one X person wrote.