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Tory Lanez Requests New Trial in Megan Thee Stallion Shooting Case

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Thania Garcia Nearly two months after a Los Angeles jury found Tory Lanez guilty of shooting Megan Thee Stallion in the feet during an altercation in July 2020, the Canadian rapper has requested a new trial.

Lanez’s legal team is now claiming that the judge assigned to the case “erroneously allowed” jurors to assess a September 2020 Instagram post from Lanez’s personal account citing Megan’s now-former best friend Kelsey Harris was not the shooter, according to a report by Rolling Stone.

Lanez, who asserted that Harris was responsible for the shooting, also filed a claim that his employee Joshua Farias was behind the social media comment.

The new filing, issued on March 29, also sees lawyers Jose Baez and Matthew Barhoma alleging that prosecutors surprised them with the Instagram comment mid-trial leaving them with little time to figure out who actually wrote it.

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