Tory Lanez has been ordered to elucidate his disruptive deposition in Megan Thee Stallion’s defamation case after mocking court docket proceedings and concentrating on her lawyer.
Tory Lanez has been given a court-imposed deadline to elucidate his erratic and combative conduct throughout a deposition tied to Megan Thee Stallion’s $10 million defamation lawsuit. A federal choose is now looking for to find out whether or not the rapper violated a court docket order.
Tory Lanez has till April 30 to reply to an order to indicate trigger as to why he shouldn’t be held in contempt for disrupting the April 9 deposition.
The session, carried out through Zoom from the California jail the place Lanez is serving a 10-year sentence for capturing Megan in 2020, shortly devolved right into a spectacle of sarcasm, private jabs and evasive solutions.
The deposition was a part of Megan’s civil swimsuit in opposition to YouTuber Milagro Gramz, who she claims unfold false and damaging claims about her psychological well being, sobriety and courtroom testimony.
Megan Thee Stallion’s attorneys allege Tory Lanez and his father helped fund and coordinate the smear marketing campaign from behind bars.
Slightly than cooperate, Lanez repeatedly interrupted questioning, mocked the method and fixated on the looks of Megan’s lawyer, Mari Henderson.
He additionally challenged the that means of fundamental phrases, together with the time period “meet,” which he twisted right into a weird tangent.
“Meat might be a scorching canine; meat might be a steak; meat might be pink meat… You might watch p###. Meat — meat is a complete factor totally different over there,” he mentioned.
Henderson and her workforce finally ended the session early, calling it “a mockery of the proceedings” and filed a movement to compel Tory Lanez to take part in a second deposition underneath correct conduct.
The court docket has now stepped in, demanding Lanez clarify why he shouldn’t face sanctions for allegedly violating the prior order that licensed his deposition.
Megan’s authorized workforce should file proof of service by Monday (April 21).
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