Tory Lanez opted towards testifying in his extremely publicized taking pictures trial on Wednesday (December 21).
In line with multiple reporters, the prosecution and the protection rested their circumstances after Tory Lanez knowledgeable the decide he wouldn’t testify. The protection didn’t name the Canadian rapper/singer’s driver Jaquan Smith to the stand though he was on the protection’s witness listing.
Prosecutors asked for a continuance if Smith testified, which might’ve pushed the trial previous the Christmas break. Protection lawyer George Mgdesyan declined to name Smith because of the proposed delay, which Tory Lanez needed to keep away from.
Closing arguments within the taking pictures trial started on Wednesday afternoon. Jurors will head behind closed doorways to deliberate the entire evidence within the case.
Prosecutors accuse Tory Lanez of taking pictures Megan Thee Stallion in July 2020. He was charged with assault with a semiautomatic firearm, carrying a loaded unregistered firearm in a automobile and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
The 30-year-old artist pleaded not responsible to the fees. If convicted, he faces as much as 22 years and eight months in jail.
A decide denied the prosecution’s try so as to add witness tampering expenses towards Tory Lanez. Megan Thee Stallion’s lawyer Alex Spiro claimed a number of witnesses had been “compromised” in an interview with TMZ on Monday (December 19).
