Judge: Tory Lanez’s tweets violated protective order in Megan Thee Stallion assault case

Canadian rapper Tory Lanez received and misplaced in a Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday.

Lanez, who’s accused of taking pictures fellow rapper Megan Thee Stallion within the foot in July 2020 exterior a Hollywood Hills mansion, noticed his bail within the felony assault case elevated to solely $350,000 throughout a pretrial listening to. The district legal professional had argued for Lanez’s bail to be revoked or elevated to $5 million.

Nevertheless, Los Angeles County Choose David Herriford additionally decided that Lanez’s social media posts gave the impression to be directed at Stallion, a violation of the court docket’s pretrial protecting orders barring him from contacting Stallion or commenting on the case.

Lanez was taken into custody on the listening to. As a situation of his launch after posting bail, Herriford mentioned Lanez couldn’t point out Stallion on social media.

In February, Stallion — born Megan Pete — posted and subsequently deleted a screenshot of a string of messages from Lanez, during which he apologized for what he’d allegedly carried out to her when he was “too drunk” and expressed that “I really feel horrible.”

This isn’t the primary time Lanez has violated the court docket’s order. Final yr, a decide elevated Lanez’s bail to $250,000 from $190,000 after he defied a 100-yard restraining order by taking the stage instantly after Stallion’s set on the Rolling Loud hip-hop music pageant.

The information of the case have been disputed in court docket and on social media, together with whether or not Lanez’s DNA was on the apprehended handgun.

At Tuesday’s listening to, protection legal professional Shawn Holley acknowledged that the DNA reviews on the weapon yielded an inconclusive discovering because of the presence of 4 DNA contributors.

Lanez, whose actual title is Daystar Peterson, was charged with assault within the case in October 2020 and faces a most sentence of twenty-two years in jail if convicted. He pleaded not responsible to at least one rely of firearm assault and one rely of carrying a hid firearm.

The trial is about for Sept. 14.