The California Supreme Court denied a review of rapper Tory Lanez’s criminal conviction, upholding his 10-year prison sentence for sh0oting fellow artist Megan Thee Stallion in 2020.
Tory Lanez’s defense petition to review his conviction in the Megan Thee Stallion sho0ting case was denied by the California Supreme Court on Wednesday, February 25, according to a disposition update.
The latest ruling comes three months after the California Court of Appeals upheld his conviction.
The case stems from his July 2020 shooting of Megan Thee Stallion while arguing in the Hollywood Hills. Tory was convicted in December 2022 of a$sault with a semiautomatic firearm, possessing a loaded unregistered firearm in a vehicle, and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
The 33-year-old Canadian rapper and singer was sentenced to ten years in prison in August 2022. Despite Tory’s continued claims of innocence, his attempts to overturn the verdict and obtain a new trial have been unsuccessful. He is eligible for parole in August 2029.
In a December 2025 interview with NBC News, Tory insisted that he was wrongfully convicted.
“I believe not only that I was wrongfully convicted, but the amount of new evidence that has emerged since that trial, I think, has been overwhelming,” he stated.
When asked about a message he’d want to send to Megan now, Tory expressed that he doesn’t hate her and would prefer to speak to her in person rather than through an interview.
“I think that I wouldn’t say something directly to her; I would like that moment to happen in person,” he said. “We’ve both gone through a lot. There’s this connotation that, like I share this hatred for her, but I don’t. I’m genuinely past that. I’m at a place of healing in my life. I’m at a place of taking accountability for the things that I did wrong. And when I talk about my case, I don’t want it to be taken as me coming for her because it’s not that. I’m just asking for somebody in the system to look at my case and look at the evidence and ask if this was fair.”
Tory is currently incarcerated at California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo, Calif.