{"id":8388,"date":"2025-10-31T22:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/tory-lanez-must-testify-in-megan-thee-stallion-lawsuit-again\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T22:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:38:13","slug":"tory-lanez-must-testify-in-megan-thee-stallion-lawsuit-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/tory-lanez-must-testify-in-megan-thee-stallion-lawsuit-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Tory Lanez Must Testify in Megan Thee Stallion Lawsuit (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tA judge has rejected Tory Lanez\u2019s latest attempt to avoid sitting for a deposition in litigation stemming from his alleged shooting of Megan Thee Stallion in 2020.<\/p>\n

\n\tLanez (Daystar Peterson), who\u2019s serving a 10-year prison sentence for allegedly shooting Megan in the foot during a drunken argument, is a begrudging witness in her civil defamation lawsuit against gossip blogger Milagro Gramz. The Houston rapper (Megan Pete) claims Lanez is paying Gramz (Milagro Cooper) to spread falsehoods about the incident and the 2022 trial.<\/p>\n

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\n\tLanez\u2019s lawyers claim deposition testimony could hurt the Canadian rapper\u2019s ongoing appeal of his criminal shooting conviction. But Judge Lisette M. Reid says in a Thursday (Oct. 30) order that it\u2019s \u201cunclear\u201d how that\u2019s possible.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe focus of Mr. Peterson\u2019s deposition is his relationship with defendant Cooper, not with plaintiff,\u201d writes the judge. \u201cThus, the court does not see how testimony regarding Mr. Peterson\u2019s communications and relationship with defendant would serve to prejudice his criminal appeal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJudge Reid says Lanez must be deposed, and he can assert his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination \u201con a question-by-question basis, the propriety of which will be decided by the undersigned who will be supervising the deposition.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tReps for Megan and Lanez did not return requests for comment on Friday (Oct. 31).<\/p>\n

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\n\tMegan\u2019s attorneys have been attempting to depose Lanez for months. Lanez\u2019s first deposition was held at the jail in April, but he was so uncooperative that the questioning had to be stopped after just 44 minutes.<\/p>\n

\n\tLanez was held in contempt for this behavior and ordered to sit for a second deposition, this time under a judge\u2019s supervision. He showed up to the courthouse on Sept. 15 with a new lawyer, Crystal Morgan, <\/strong>who this time asserted that Lanez wouldn\u2019t answer any questions at all due to concerns about the appeal.<\/p>\n

\n\tA third attempt at Lanez\u2019s deposition will be held \u201cat a date agreed upon by all parties,\u201d wrote Judge Reid, who says she may order Lanez to repay Megan\u2019s lawyers for the time they\u2019ve expended on the back and forth. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe deposition battle comes as a Nov. 17 trial date is fast approaching in Megan\u2019s lawsuit against Gramz. The rapper says Gramz has been posting lies about Lanez\u2019s shooting trial, including false information that the gun in question went \u201cmissing,\u201d to undermine the guilty verdict and ruin her reputation. Gramz denies any wrongdoing and says all of her social media activity is First Amendment-protected free speech.<\/p>\n

\n\tLanez hasn\u2019t been the only difficult witness in the case. Two of his close allies \u2014 legal advocate Ceasar McDowell and blogger DJ Akademiks \u2014 have also been accused of derailing their depositions with disruptive behavior.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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