Two years ago high powered attorney Shawn Holley withdrew from Tory Lanez' felony assault case for shooting Houston rapper Megan Thee Stallion, after she was falsely accused of facilitating a bribe for Megan's ex-best friend, Kelsey Harris [click here if you missed that].
Now Tory is accusing Shawn of having ties to Roc Nation...
From TMZ
Tory Lanez is ripping his former attorney apart in a formal ethics complaint to the State Bar of California ... claiming she didn't have his best interest at heart when she represented him in his criminal case over the Megan Thee Stallion shooting!!!
TMZ Hip Hop obtained Tory's complaint, in which he says his former attorney Shawn Holley abandoned him when the going got tough in his criminal case -- but not before paying her a few pretty pennies!!!
The incarcerated "Say It" singer claims he took on Holley to represent him without knowing she had business ties to Megan's record label, Roc Nation.
Tory cites Hulu's hit series "Reasonable Doubt" as the source of her conflict of interest. He says Holley served as one of the principal producers on the show, which is loosely based on her life as a celeb attorney.
Megan and Beyoncé's Grammy Award-winning collab "Savage (Remix)" was featured in season 2 of the show, as was a track from Holley's daughter Nayanna, who has sung backup for Beyoncé in the past.
Tory says Roc Nation CEO Desiree Perez was allowed to assist Megan in giving police statements, and claims Holley left him high and dry when she quit representing him on December 18 ... just 5 days before the guilty verdict ... but after Tory says he paid her between $200K-$300K to retain her services!!!
Tory says his refusal to take a guilty plea caused Holley to neglect fighting for his innocence, including by allegedly telling his DNA expert not to perform extensive studies on the gun after he insisted he never touched it.
Tory believes Holley was acting on the orders of Roc Nation to force him to plea out, and when it didn't work, she withdrew under the pretense that a witness accused her of bribery to affect her testimony on Tory's behalf -- which Tory says was never true.
He's now demanding the California State Bar discipline Holley for the alleged ethical breaches and wants her to return the money he paid her.
Tory may have an uphill battle on his hands ... Holley tells TMZ she's heard this song from Tory before, saying "Mr. Peterson brought these meritless claims to the State Bar over a year ago and they were summarily rejected and the matter was promptly closed. His actions to publicize this failed effort are likely tied to the appeal of his criminal conviction, for which I wish him well."
10 comments:
This man is crazy! Here’s the thing he has never once said the gun was not his so how do you own a gun that was in a car with you that you NEVER touched! Seee this clown think he wiped the gun clean and so by asking for a DNA test it will not show his DNA on it. He fails to realize that his charges stem from him having a gun that was t registered and a gun he was not suppose to be in possession of. So if he was going to go down that road then the first words out of his mouth this entire time should have been THAT AINT MY GUN . But he knows he can’t say that because they can prove it is. At this point it’s gotta be drugs and mental illness he blaming everybody except himself
Say anything, do everything (Desperate) to get out of prison. You should have stayed in Canada.
Whatever it takes to get an appeal. 10 years is too much time.
TAKE ALL AVENUES AT YOUR DISPOSAL, TL
IT MAY NOT GET YOU OUT OF PRISON, BUT IT MAY GET YOU HEARD WITH THE RIGHT PEOPLE WHO MAY ACTUALLY BE KNOWLEDGEABLE IN/WITH THE LAWS OF THIS COUNTRY
He could have killed her. He's lucky he didn't get an attempted m-u-rder charge. Danger to society.
I'M NOT AT ALL TRYING TO BE FUNNY WHEN I SAY THIS,BUT HONESTLY, IT SEEMED AS THOUGH TL DIDN'T INTEND TO SHOOT OR HARM MTS.
AGAIN, I'M NOT BEING FUNNY OR SARCASTIC AT ALL, BUT IT SEEMED TO ME THAT TL WAS TRYING TO MAKE MTS 'DANCE', PROBABLY THINKING SHE'D MOVE HER FEET OR OUT OF THE WAY OF BULLETS BY MOTION OF REFLEX.
LIKE, WHEN SOMEONE ATTEMPTS TO PUNCH SOMEONE IN THE FACE THE PERSON ABOUT TO GET PUNCHED DUCKS THE POTENTIAL BLOW BY QUICK REFLEX & PUNCHES BACK IN RETURN OUT OF DEFENSE.
I'M BEING SERIOUS WHEN I SAY THIS, WHICH IS WHY I DON'T BELIEVE THE INCIDENT DESERVED A DIME OF TIME. MAYBE A FEW YEARS A& POTENTIAL PROBATION THERE AFTERWARDS.
BUT THEN AGAIN, IT DOES DEPENDS ON WHAT STATE & REGION THE ACCUSED RESIDES IN.
^^ He pulled a loaded gun. He pulled a loaded gun. I repeated it bc anytime you pull and aim a loaded gun it don't matter your intention, you could cause harm. Only in self defense is it justified.
^^^^^ I SEE YOUR VIEWPOINT &,I'M WELL AWARE THAT TL WAS ACCUSED OF PULLING "A LOADED GUN", BUT IF HE REALLY WANTED TO HURT OR HARM MTS, FROM MY POINT OF VIEW, HE PROBABLY WOULD'VE AIMED THAT "LOADED GUN" AT SOMEPLACE OTHER THAN THE GROUND WHERE HER FEET WERE.
I NEVER SAID TL DIDN'T DESERVE JAIL TIME ONCE CONVICTED, IT'S THE AMOUNT OF JAIL TIME HE'D BEEN SENTENCED THAT I QUESTION.
^ OK I get that. If he didn't run his big mouth online, and try to disparage her as a liar maybe it woulda been a shorter sentence.
I STILL WANNA KNOW THE REAL REASON WHY TL FELT A GUN NEEDED TO BE PULLED.
LIKE, WHAT WAS THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN TL, MTS, & HER FIREND WHO ACCUSED HIM OF SHOOTING THEN RECANTED HER STORY THAT RESULTED IN A WEAPON BEING DRAWN.
THAT PLAYED A ROLE TOO NOT JUST TL'S BIG MOUTH. ALCOHOL HAD TO PLAY A ROLE AS WELL.
I THINK MTS THOUGHT SHE'D GARNER THE TYPE OF ATTENTION FROM BEING THE VICTIM OF A SHOOTING THAT RIHANNA GOT FROM BEING VICTIMIZED BY CHRIS BROWN'S CRAZY AZZ.
HER TRYING TO GET PUBLIC SYMPATHY FOR BEING SHOT IN THE FOOT, I'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I CAN'T ROCK WITH MTS FOR WHAT TRANSPIRED. ATLEAST RIHANNA EXPLAINED WHAT SHE 'D DONE THAT HELPED HEIGHTEN THE ALTERCATION BETWEEN SHE & CB DURING HER DIANE SAWYER INTERVIEW. ULTIMATELY, MY BEING A RIHANNA FAN, I SIDED WITH HER,ESPECIALLY AFTER THOSE PICS WERE RELEASED OF WHAT CB HAD DONE TO HER.
FOR MANY REASONS, MTS WASN'T GONNA GARNER THAT TYPE OF PUBLIC SYMPATHY.
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