Overview
- Tory Lanez gave his first on-camera interview from prison, maintaining his innocence in the 2020 shooting of Megan Thee Stallion.
- The defense alleges a Brady violation, pointing to a July 14, 2020 Cedars-Sinai entry noting a security employee retrieved an evidence bag containing a “foreign body.”
- NBC News says it reviewed the document, which Lanez’s team claims was absent from their trial evidence copy; bullet fragments were not introduced at the 2022 trial.
- Lanez’s attorneys say they will petition the California Supreme Court and have asked Gov. Gavin Newsom for clemency or a pardon.
- Last month the California Second District Court of Appeal rejected Lanez’s prior appeal, and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has not commented on the new claim, which legal experts say faces a high bar.