Rapper Tory Lanez’s lawyer has requested that he be launched from jail and, as a substitute of serving 13 years in jail for taking pictures Megan Thee Stallion, that he receives probation and despatched to a substance abuse program.

The sentencing memo was filed on Wednesday however shouldn’t be but public. Nonetheless, journalist Meghann Cuniff claims to have a replica of the memo and has shared the gist of what protection attorneys for the Canadian rapper imagine must be his punishment.

In keeping with Cuniff, the rapper’s lawyer filed a professionally worded protection memorandum on what they suppose the rapper ought to obtain following his conviction for 3 felony taking pictures prices towards Megan Thee Stallion in 2020.

She mentioned that the rapper doesn’t admit responsible and exhibits no regret regardless of the conviction, and he maintains that he’s “harmless and the case has too many issues for his ‘lack of regret’ to be thought of in his sentencing.

I’ve Tory Lanez’s sentencing memo for taking pictures Megan Thee Stallion. It asks that he be launched from jail to probation and a substance abuse program. I’m placing collectively an article that can publish in regards to the time I am going stay on YouTube at 5 p.m. PST: https://t.co/GDQHJItRiB

— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) August 2, 2023

The rapper’s sentencing is scheduled for Monday, August 7 at 10:30 am earlier than Justice David Herriford, choose of the Superior Court docket of Los Angeles County.

The remainder of the main points of the sentencing memo filed by Lanez’s group is unavailable, nevertheless it pales compared with what prosecutors have outlined and the 13 years sentence they’ve really helpful for Lanez.

The prosecution’s sentencing memo outlines Lanez’s habits earlier than and in the course of the trial, which incorporates his lack of care and disrespect to the court docket as he breached protecting and gag orders positioned on him not to talk about the trial or to the sufferer.

Tory Lanez was additionally accused of leaking a GSR DNA report back to blogger DJ Akademiks in hopes that publicity would possibly have an effect on the trial with a bonus to him in its end result.

Though protection attorneys Jose Baez and Ed Welbourn have mentioned the rapper is harmless, the prosecution referred to proof launched within the trial the place Lanez admitted that he was sorry for supposedly taking pictures Megan and requested her buddy Kelsey Harris to convey his regrets.

Tory Lanez has remained behind bars since being sentenced in December.