Today’s hearing in the Megan Thee Stallion shooting case against Tory Lanez turned out to be an eventful one. Tory was handcuffed and taken into custody for violating the court’s protective order against him (again) and ordered to pay $350,000 in bail. While that event was the one that rightly got the lion’s share of the attention, another detail emerged thanks to Rolling Stone‘s Nancy Dillon that undermined a key — if unofficial — part of Tory’s defense.
In February, Megan Thee Stallion lit into social media personality DJ Akademiks, who “reported” that “Tory Lanez DNA WAS NOT found on the weapon in the Meg Thee Stallion case.” Megan accused Akademiks of being a stooge for Tory Lanez — an accusation supported by the fact that Akademiks tweeted the tidbit before the hearing had even begun. While he deleted the tweet, he also maintained that he’d obtained the information from court documents, not from Tory or Tory’s lawyer.
Tory Lanez was handcuffed in court and remanded to custody until he posts new bail of $350,000 in Megan Thee Stallion felony assault case. Judge found him in violation of discovery protective order and personal contact order.
— Nancy Dillon (@Nancy__Dillon) April 5, 2022
Today, Tory’s lawyer corroborated Akademiks’ claim, saying that Tory didn’t provide Akademiks the documents, but complained that if the judge “had seen this document, he presumably would have got it right.” However, some are pointing to the wording of his description of the DNA test, which they say suggests that Tory fudged the results of the test. According to Dillon, Tory’s lawyer, Shawn Holley, “confirmed the swab on the gun came back ‘inconclusive’ with 4 contributors while the magazine swab ‘excluded’ Lanez.”
Holley confirmed the swab on the gun came back "inconclusive" with 4 contributors while the magazine swab "excluded" Lanez.
"If he had seen this document, he presumably would have got it right," Holley said in court.
— Nancy Dillon (@Nancy__Dillon) April 5, 2022
The obscure wording has fans duking it out via Twitter, with some believing Holley meant that Tory was cleared and others thinking Tory’s DNA was never submitted. In any event, any physical evidence would only suggest that Tory came into contact with the gun or its magazine, not whether or not he fired the gun, which is the claim that will actually be contended on September 14 when the actual trial begins.
So basically his team tried to play technicality mind games with twitter to win the court of public appeal battle lol.
"See my DNA wasn't on the gun now what!?!!"
cant fail a test if ya don't take it https://t.co/velwQfZZk5
— Te!ko (backup) (@ThaTanMamba) April 5, 2022
https://twitter.com/KevSnowMan/status/1511408134614626306
no dna submitted from t*ry —> no match to dna on the gun —> inconclusive. you cant match dna to nothing. i need yall to think. https://t.co/eGitVtPxGd
— nay 👾 (@chaoticblkgirl) April 5, 2022
The people in the quotes reading this backwards. They’re saying the gun swab had 4 contributors and Tory Lanez was not one of them or the “main one”.
These are swabs off the weapon. Not swabs from the people if that makes sense. They already had Tory Lanez’s DNA to test against. https://t.co/ervVCFgaHZ
— 🐝Mel🐝 (@Tokyo_Gaming_) April 5, 2022
https://twitter.com/lotta_azzz/status/1511398224757727236
