Lawyers for rapper A$AP Rocky will present their defense case on Friday, aiming to establish an alternative account of the events leading to the charges of assault with a semiautomatic firearm. They plan to call A$AP Twelvyy, who will testify that Rocky fired a starter pistol that only shoots blanks.
Lawyers for rapper A$AP Rocky will make the defense case Friday at his Los Angeles trial, where he's charged with two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearmRapper A$AP Rocky arrives at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025.
The potentially confusing set of “A$AP” names have become familiar to people in the courtroom, and most likely the jury, through the approximately three days of Relli's testimony, which makes up the bulk of Raised in Harlem, the Grammy nominee had his mainstream breakthrough when his first studio album went to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 2013.
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