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Tory Lanez is set to appear in a courtroom on Tuesday morning, where he will be sentenced following his conviction for shooting and injuring Megan Thee Stallion. Rapper Tory Lanez is set to appear in a courtroom Tuesday morning in Los Angeles, where he will be sentenced for the July 2020 shooting that injured rapper Megan Thee Stallion. Lanez, who was convicted on Dec. 23, 2022, for shooting and injuring the hip hop artist, whose legal name is Megan Pet e, was initially set to be sentenced in January. The sentencing has been delayed several times after Lanez obtained new attorneys and filed a motion for a new trial. He faces up to 22 years and 8 months in prison. According to a motion filed by the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office on May 23, a new California law would by default make Lanez’s sentence come in the “middle term” of the potential 22-year sentence, unless “circumstances in aggravation” were proven. But prosecutors argued in the motion for a harsher sentence for the r...

Derek Chauvin asks to throw out murder convictions in Wednesday. Derek Chauvin's attorney is set to argue Minnesota should throw out his state murder conviction in the death of George Floyd in a Wednesday hearing. The former Minneapolis police officer was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in June 2021 after he was convicted of second-degree unintentional murder , third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. Chauvin was found guilty of pressing his knee against Floyd's neck for more than 9 minutes, resulting in Floyd's death in May 2020. The death triggered a wave of protests against police misconduct and a racial reckoning nationwide. FILE - In this image taken from video, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court at the Hennepin County Courthouse, June 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. AP Chauvin's attorney, William F. Mohrman, will argue that pretrial publicity "was more extensive than in any trial ever in Minnesota," and that publicit...