The three-judge panel weighing Tory Lanez ’s appeal in the Megan Thee Stallion shooting case posed only a handful of questions during oral arguments Monday as Lanez’s lawyer claimed the musician’s 2022 conviction should be overturned and a prosecutor called Lanez’s argument “nonsensical.”
In her first two questions, Associate Justice Rashida Adams with California’s Second Appellate District focused on Lanez’s argument that prosecutors should have been barred from making explosive claims about Megan’s bodyguard, Justin Edison, at the start of Lanez’s jury trial. At the very least, the judge should have stepped in afterward to mitigate any possible damage, defense lawyer Crystal Morgan argued.
In their opening statement back in December 2022, prosecutors advised jurors they would hea