Tory Lanez spoke publicly for the first time from prison about a potential legal breakthrough and renewed his push to overturn his conviction in the shooting death of Megan Thee Stallion.
The rapper says he has newfound evidence that his team says was never turned over during the trial.
“I think not only was I wrongly convicted, but I think the amount of new evidence that’s come out since that trial is overwhelming,” the Canadian rapper told NBC News in an interview at the California Men’s Prison in San Luis Obispo.
Lawyers for Lanez are preparing to file a new appeal with the California Supreme Court, arguing that key forensic evidence, specifically the bullet fragments allegedly removed from Megan’s foot, were never turned over to the defense.
At the heart of the charge is that Brady violated a legal standard requiring prosecutors to disclose all potentially exculpatory evidence to the defense.
Attorney Crystal Morgan said the missing fragments were documented in a pathology report from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. According to her, the report states that the fragments were placed in evidence bags and handed over to hospital security.
Morgan said: “The document is missing from our official stamped copy of the criminal trial evidence, which is significant because this particular document shows they removed the fragments and put them into bags before handing them over to a security guard working at Cedars-Sinai.”
The report surfaced amid a separate defamation lawsuit Meghan filed against blogger Milagro Gramz.
Gramz’s attorneys disclosed documents from July 14, 2020, in which a hospital security guard retrieved an evidence bag containing a “foreign object.”
Lanez, who was convicted in December 2022 and sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges including assault with a semiautomatic firearm and possession of an unregistered firearm, insisted the trial had unfairly portrayed him.
“When I talk about my case, I don’t want to be thought that I’m attacking her, because that’s not the case,” he said. “I’m just asking someone in the system to look at my case and look at the evidence and ask if this is fair.”
Last month, California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal rejected Lanez’s preliminary appeal, saying “there was no case of ineffective assistance of counsel or trial court error.”
His legal team now hopes the state’s highest court will consider the newly discovered evidence. Lanez is also seeking clemency or pardon from California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Meanwhile, Meghan continues to speak out about the emotional toll the case has taken and previously obtained a restraining order against Lanez, accusing him of using a third party to harass her in prison.
