Megan Thee Stallion‘s lawyer has rejected claims made by Tory Lanez that the gun used in her shooting has gone missing.
In his latest appeal filing, Lanez claimed that the “firearm and bullet fragments are missing,” preventing him from having further tests conducted.
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This has been strongly refuted by Megan’s lawyer Alex Spiro, who informed Legal Affairs and Trials with Meghann Cuniff that the gun is in the hands of the LAPD and available for testing.
Lanez’s new attorneys Unite the People — a non-profit organization of which the rapper is a board member — accused prosecutors of a “failure to produce and preserve evidence” and called for his 10-year prison sentence to be vacated.
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Tory has claimed that DNA evidence played a key role in his conviction, but as Cuniff noted, during trial, Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Alexander Bott specifically stated during the trial that DNA was not part of the “bucket of evidence” used by prosecutors to prove his guilt.
Spiro also questioned why a nonprofit legal organization such as Unite the People is working on Lanez’s case, saying: “There are lots of people in jail that need help who tell the truth and who are innocent and deserve to be freed. I’d rather they spend their time on that than nonsense like this.”
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The appellate court is currently considering Tory’s petition along with his main appeal and an additional petition about a post-trial declaration from his driver Jaquan Smith, who claims to have seen Megan’s friend Kelsey Harris holding the gun during the shooting.
The California Attorney General’s Office has been given until November 20 to respond.
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Unite the People are also responsible for spreading the unfounded rumors that Tory Lanez had been found innocent by an appeals court.
In an Instagram post, the group falsely claimed: “The Appellate Court JUST ‘ACCEPTED TORY LANEZ ACTUAL INNOCENCE CLAIM!!!’”
This was quickly debunked by Meghann Cuniff, who wrote on X (formerly Twitter): “No, the appellate court has not declared Lanez ‘innocent.’ Not even close.”
Cuniff, who has dilligently covered the high-profile and often contentious case, then explained: “All the court did was consolidate Lanez’s habeas petition and his actual appeal. They haven’t ruled on anything yet and it’s pathetic that this trash website amplifies outright lies, even when the court document is right there staring everyone in the face.”
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She then pointed out that “this is an entirely new habeas petition. He has one in from last year about the driver’s statement, but according to the docket his lawyers filed another one this week. Which makes the idea that the court somehow granted it even stupider. [The Attorney General] hasn’t.”
Cuniff also criticized Unite the People’s lack of understanding of the legal process: “Unite the People is the same group that falsely reported the appellate court had freed Lanez from prison. They even told his father that.
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“The group seems to struggle with correctly interpreting court actions for the public, and we should keep that in mind moving forward.”
