By ANDREW DALTON

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California court on Wednesday denied rapper Tory Lanez’s appeal of his guilty verdict on charges he fired a gun at Megan Thee Stallion .

A three-judge panel from the California 2nd District Court of Appeal issued a ruling saying they affirm the conviction of the 33-year-old Lanez on three felony counts.

Lanez was convicted of three felonies in December of 2022: assault with a semiautomatic firearm; having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm with gross negligence. His trial became a cultural phenomenon, with the prominence of its key players and the discussions it raised about gender, race , hip-hop and online toxicity.

Megan, whose lega l name is Megan Pete, testified that in July 2020, after they left a p

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