Last year Canadian rapper Tory Lanez was found guilty of shooting Houston rapper Megan Thee Stallion [click here if you missed that].
Now Tory wants the judge removed from the case...
From Yahoo News
Tory Lanez’s defense team isn’t letting up on getting their client from behind bars, as well as getting Judge Herriford disqualified from their case.
In an official motion filed on May 19, lawyers Matthew Barhoma and Jose Baez asked that Herriford be removed due to claims of “favoritism” towards prosecution.
According to law reporter Meghann Cuniff, Barhoma and Baez stated in their appellate petition that Herriford made them present their arguments in his preferred order rather than how they had planned. They also allege he didn’t allow them to call live witnesses, and that he continuously interrupted them while in argument. The petition was filed shortly after the two-day hearing that took place last month where Lanez was denied a new trial.
“Conversely, the Judge gave the People a full and fair opportunity to present argument uninterrupted, even when the case cited by the People did not stand for the proposition that they advanced,” Lanez’s legal team motioned. “Together, these facts reveal such a high degree of favoritism or antagonism as to make fair judgment impossible. Given these facts, a reasonable person would fairly entertain doubts concerning the Judge’s impartiality. As a result, disqualification is required.”
The Canadian rapper has served nearly seven months in jail for the 2019 shooting of Megan Thee Stallion. He was charged with assault involving a semiautomatic firearm, discharging a firearm with gross negligence, and having an unregistered firearm in a vehicle.
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