Tory Lanez’s legal team is continuing to fight for his freedom, days after a judge denied their motion to submit new evidence in the Megan Thee Stallion shooting case.
Lanez’s attorney, Crystal Morgan, argued to a panel of judges in California’s Second District Court of Appeal that the DNA evidence the prosecution presented during his trial was misleading.
“It is actually marginally more likely that another member of the African American population touched this gun over Mr. Peterson,” she said, according to Billboard. “If our jury had heard that Mr. Peterson maybe one in a million touched the gun, I believe that would have been enough to tip that scale and show reasonable doubt.”
Lanez has repeatedly maintained his innocence. Earlier this year, his legal team uploaded some of the new evidence to a website, 36hourslater.com.
His team insists that if Lanez was the shooter, his DNA would have been on the weapon fired that night.
“I would say it is a statistical fact that any random African American male was more likely a contributor to the DNA on the gun than Daystar Peterson,” attorney Jose A. Baez, also told USA TODAY. “In fact, the DNA community has a random profile that is used as a control sample, and that profile was determined to match the mixture found on the gun rather than Daystar Peterson,” he continued. “To be clear, it would be reckless and a complete fabrication to say that Tory’s DNA was on that gun and to not exclude him as a contributor.”