shooting hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion in the feet and wounding her. Superior Court Judge David Herriford rejected arguments from lawyers for Lanez that evidence was wrongly admitted at the trial he presided over.
He said that the exclusion of the disputed evidence would not have made a difference at the trial. Lanez, 30, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, will now be sentenced for convictions of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
He could get up to 22 years in prison and faces deportation to his native Canada. READ NEXT: Brundle still baffled about being shunned by Megan Thee StallionAs he was led from the court back to jail after a hearing on the motion a day earlier, he pleaded with Judge Herriford to help him, saying: "I could be your son.
I could be your brother. "Motions for a new trial filed immediately afterwards with the same judge are a common precursor to appealing to a higher court, which Lanez's lawyers plan to do.
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