Judge David Hariford revoked Lanez’s previous $ 250,000 bail and increased it to $ 350,000 after hearing an hour-long argument that Lanez had violated court orders barring him from communicating or harassing Meg. with external parts. The rapper of “Say It” had a bond with him for the morning listening and spent about five hours in custody. As soon as he was treated and released, he got behind the wheel of a waiting Lamborghini, told Rolling Stone he felt “amazing” and left. Lanez, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, pleaded not guilty to the high-profile case dating back to July 2020. He appeared in court wearing a black tuxedo jacket over a black jacket and was accompanied by his father and several friends. His lawyer, Shawn Holley, argued that Lanez did not provide a third-party Twitter user and YouTube personality known as DJ Akademiks with any revelation in the case before Akademiks tweeted on February 23 that “no Tory Lanez DNA was found in weapon in Meg. The Thee Stallion case. “ “What he said is wrong,” Holley told the court on Tuesday, referring to a deleted tweet that caused a storm on social media. “What he said (DJ Akademiks) is that DNA was not found in the weapon. And in fact, the baton of the weapon indicates “vaguely” that there were four contributors. Holley also referred to a subsequent Feb. 23 tweet from DJ Akademiks that read: “I saw this document myself … it literally says it was obscure to find Tory’s DNA in the gun or magazine.” Holley said it was also false because “the magazine’s swab shows that Mr Peterson was excluded.” “If he had seen this document, he would obviously have understood it correctly,” he said, calling the tweets “chatter” in “a medium that is almost inherently unreliable.” “The court can not conclude that the defendant distributed anything, however it appears to have violated the provision prohibiting him from making statements about the discovery,” Judge Hereiford said, citing subsequent posts by Peterson, including one that wrote “Ak does not lie.” Holley claimed that Megan also used her remarkable social media presence to talk about the case and that some of her comments were “harmful” to Peterson. But Deputy Attorney Kathy Ta argued that Peterson’s alleged support for DJ Akademiks’s tweets on DNA was “his way of going ahead and manipulating the narrative.” He said Megan was “life threatening” and “constantly harassed” because of Peterson’s “course of conduct”. Judge Hariford ordered Peterson to hold the sheriff with the highest level of detention, saying prosecutors’ request that the musician be released without bail was “extreme”. The judge added a new “very clear” condition of release, stating that Peterson “can not report the complaining witness in this case on any social media.” “The DA did not ask for a guarantee or, alternatively, a guarantee of $ 5 million, and the court rejected these arguments and increased the guarantee to $ 350,000. “And that guarantee is being paid now,” Holley said after the hearing. “I am here because this is my son. I’m the first person out there to hear about it that day. I believe in him. “I believe in his innocence,” Peterson’s father, Sonstar Peterson, told Rolling Stone. The high-profile case is now moving to a September 14th trial after a former judge ruled in a preliminary hearing in December that prosecutors had enough evidence to justify the jury. At the December hearing, an LAPD detective testified that Peterson allegedly fired a 9mm semi-automatic pistol into the ground near Megan’s feet, injuring the “Savage” singer during an argument that followed their departure from a in the pool at Kylie Jenner’s house. Detective Ryan Stogner said he was assigned the case two days after the shooting and interviewed Megan by phone on July 16, 2020 and then again on November 12, 2020. He said Megan, whose legal name is Megan Pete, remembered to testify Peterson pulls the trigger. “As she was getting out of the vehicle, she heard Mr. Peterson shouting at her and saying, ‘Dance, bitch!’ “And then he started firing a gun at her,” Stogner testified. “(Megan) noticed Mr. Peterson holding a gun and then noticed him start firing,” Stogner said. “Megan immediately felt pain in her legs, noticed blood, fell to the ground and then was dragged to an adjacent street of a house… Described her injuries as bleeding. Holley then questioned Stogner for his defense, roasting him about his interviews with Pete and testifying that the “Hot Girl Summer” rapper was embroiled in an altercation with her friend and former assistant Kelsey Harris, who was another passenger in the black Cadillac. Escalade, just before filming. Holley suggested that Harris “had a romantic interest in the Tories” and was jealous when Peterson allegedly claimed during the drive home that he and Pete had a “close relationship.” Holley went on to say that Harris may have been in possession of the gun when she fired, as investigators found remnants of gunshot wounds in her hand. The lawyer also said that a man who saw the shot from a nearby house said he believed the muzzle flash was closer to the woman who was not the victim at the time of the shooting. After further questioning by Ta last December, Stogner said the remnants of the shooting could be transferred to someone “close” to a shotgun. Stogner also questioned the reliability of the eyewitness account, saying the man reported seeing two men and a woman physically beating Pete. “She thought they were trying to kill her. “He said he felt a savage beating,” Stogner testified. “He had reported that the two males were hitting the woman on the ground.” Peterson was arrested after being shot by police officers who responded to a “shooting” call near Nichols Canyon Road 1800. Arrested on suspicion of possessing a concealed firearm in a vehicle, he was released a few hours later after paying the initial $ 35,000 bail. Pete did not publicly identify Peterson as the alleged perpetrator for weeks, but eventually named him more than a month later in an Instagram post. “Tori shot me. “You shot me and made your reporter and your people go to these blogs, lie and shit,” he said in the video posted on August 20, 2020. “Stop lying. Why lie? I do not understand. “I tried to keep the situation off the Internet, but you drag it out.” He said: “Although he shot me, I tried to save him. And oh moms it does not save me. This is crazy.” Immediately after the shooting, Pete was unclear about what happened. Stogner testified that she initially told officers that she had cut her legs in glass. He did this because he was worried about how the police would react if they knew Peterson, a black man, had a gun in the car, he allegedly told Stogner. “She said that at that time she was extremely scared and ashamed and because of the fact that she was friends with the accused, she was afraid that she would get into trouble and she also expressed some concerns about the political climate. “about the police and the shootings,” Stogner testified. “She feared that there had been recent police shootings and described her concern that police might shoot the accused after he had just been shot.” Peterson, 29, was formally charged on October 8, 2020, with a charge of assaulting a Houston performer with a semi-automatic firearm in a manner that “caused personal injury” and a charge of carrying a concealed, loaded and unregistered firearm. weapon in a vehicle. His next trial is set for June 9.
