If Tory does testify, Deputy DA Bott wants to ask him about an assault on Love and Hip Hop star Prince in Florida. There's also talk about how prosecutors can address a diversion case Tory had that they say basically constitutes the probation his lawyer keeps saying he wasn't on.
The final witness for today was someone jurors heard from earlier in trial: Randy Zepeda, a criminalist with LAPD's crime lab who was called by prosecutors as a rebuttal witness for Lanez's DNA expert.
Zepeda answered "yes and no" when asked if he agrees with the expert's testimony that if someone fired a gun five times, they would leave DNA behind.
"There is also a possibility that you won't leave any behind," Zepeda testified.
Zepeda said we simply don't know if Tory Lanez's DNA was on the handgun that fired the five bullets the night Megan Thee Stallion was shot. Zepeda also said he disagrees with the expert's testimony that one of the four DNA profiles on the gun has to be female.
"If a lawyer argues to the jury that the defendant's DNA is not on the gun, is that accurate?" Deputy DA Alexander Bott asked.
"No," Zepeda answered.
He also said it wouldn't be accurate to say Lanez's DNA WAS on the gun, (which prosecutors haven't said).
The highlight of the afternoon probably occurred after the jury left and Bott complained to Judge Herriford that Tory's lawyer George Mgdesyan said to him today, "Keep smirking and see what happens."
Bott said Mgdesyan has conducted himself unprofessionally this entire trial.
Bott said Mgdesyan said that to him after his cross-examination of Sean Kelly the neighbor. He said Mgdesyan has been muttering under his breath and regularly calling him names such as idiot and also something much more offensive in chambers.
Bott called Mgdesyan's conduct "vastly inappropriate" and asked Judge Herriford to admonish him, but the judge shrugged it off and moved into a discussion of exhibits and jury instructions. More to come on that.
I asked Tory’s father if I could photograph him, and he happily agreed. The women he’s with told me she preferred not to give her name or relation to Tory (“I want to remain a mystery.”) but she told me she has a reporting background and respects what reporters do.