As Tory Lanez serves his 10-year prison sentence for shooting Megan Thee Stallion in both feet back in July 2020, the rapper has been pursuing multiple avenues to try to overturn his conviction .

On Tuesday, an appellate court in California denied a pair of so-called writ of habeas corpus petitions that he filed in 2023 and 2024 to invalidate the jury’s verdict based on issues or evidence not presented during the trial. (Lanez’s separate direct appeal, which is based on what Los Angeles County jurors did hear during his December 2022 trial, is still pending with oral arguments set for Monday.)

In their rulings issued Tuesday, the same three-judge panel with California’s Second District Court of Appeal said Lanez’s “piecemeal” claims didn’t meet the requirements for habeas relief.

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