Overview
- A three-judge panel of the 2nd District Court of Appeal affirmed the jury’s verdict and 10-year sentence, rejecting defense claims of trial error in a 46-page ruling.
- The justices wrote that the evidence was more than sufficient to support a finding that Lanez inflicted great bodily injury on Megan Thee Stallion.
- Lanez was convicted in December 2022 of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, having a loaded unregistered firearm in a vehicle, and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
- At trial, Megan Thee Stallion testified that he fired at her feet after a 2020 gathering in the Hollywood Hills, and doctors later removed bullet fragments from both feet.
- Lanez remains incarcerated at the California Men’s Colony after being stabbed earlier in custody, and a judge previously granted Megan Thee Stallion a restraining order.