Tory Lanez, actual identify Daystar Peterson, was convicted of felony assault with a firearm final December for taking pictures fellow rap star Megan Thee Stallion, actual identify Megan Pete, within the foot in the summertime of 2020. His request for a brand new trial was denied in Could, and right this moment — after 5 delays and a number of days of courtroom machinations — he was sentenced to 10 years in jail for the crime.

Los Angeles Superior Courtroom Decide David Herriford handed down the sentence, stating that it was “troublesome to reconcile” the particular person portrayed by the protection throughout the sentencing listening to and the one who fired a gun at Megan Thee Stallion. “Generally good individuals do unhealthy issues,” Herriford stated. “Actions have penalties, and there aren’t any winners on this case.”

“If I might flip again the collection of occasions that evening and alter them I’d,” Lanez stated when addressing the choose proper earlier than he delivered the sentence. “The sufferer was my pal. The sufferer is somebody I nonetheless look after to at the present time. Every little thing I did flawed that evening, I take full accountability for.”

Prosecutors had requested the choose handy down a 13-year sentence. On Tuesday, the choose had requested prosecutors whether or not “imposing 10 years as an alternative of 13 years would endanger public security,” and the prosecutors responded that they felt a 13-year sentence can be acceptable. In a sentencing memorandum, prosecutors wrote that Lanez, 31, has re-traumatized Megan with social media posts that instigated assaults from his followers. In a written assertion from Megan learn throughout the sentencing, she wrote that she has “not skilled a single day of peace” because the taking pictures. Lanez’s attorneys requested for probation whereas acknowledging that probation just isn’t inside the authorized sentencing limits for this crime. Per authorized reporter Meghann Cuniff, on the sentencing Herriford agreed to contemplate two aggravating components, use of a gun and Megan’s standing as a weak sufferer, whereas rejecting the issue of high-level callousness. Aggravating components are inclined to warrant an extended jail sentence.

Per Cuniff, the choose obtained greater than 70 letters in assist of Lanez, together with one from Iggy Azalea asking that he impose a sentence “that’s transformational, not life destroying.” One other letter from a jail chaplain described Lanez as “remorseful,” saying he has “talked intimately in regards to the occasion and what he might have executed to forestall it.” Lanez has by no means admitted to the crime and has argued that if he did do it, it was the results of repressed trauma and must be handled with remedy, not jail time.

“I don’t need to name myself a sufferer. As I mirror on the previous three years, I view myself as a survivor, as a result of I’ve really survived the unimaginable,” Megan wrote in a bit for Elle final yr. “Not solely did I survive being shot by somebody I trusted and thought of a detailed pal, however I overcame the general public humiliation of getting my identify and status dragged by way of the mud by that particular person for your entire world to see.”