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A$AP beat the charges like Rocky. After three weeks on trial, rapper A$AP Rocky was found not guilty in his highly-publicized trail for felony assault, which involved in a shooting nearly four years ago.
On Tuesday (Feb. 18), A$AP Rocky jumped in joy and leaped into his girlfriend Rihanna’s arms after the verdict was revealed. Born, Rakim Meyers, pleaded not guilty at the beginning of the year and was facing up to 24 years in prison. Rocky turned down a prosecution offer of just six months in jail, along with probation and other conditions, if he would plead guilty to one count.
“Thank y’all for saving my life,” A$AP told members of the jury at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles.
Rocky faced two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, from the 2021 shooting incident in Los Angeles with former friend, A$AP Relli. The two were involved in a scuffle in Hollywood on November 6, 2021. The physical altercation lead Rocky firing his firearm twice. Relli said one of the shots grazed his knuckle but was not seriously hurt.
The defense argued that Rocky shot a prop gun, which he had been carrying for security and only shot blanks and only fired it as a warning during the physical altercation.
“Relli is an angry pathological liar, who committed perjury again and again and again and again, ” said the rapper’s attorney Joe Tacopina. He added, “They saw through this mirage of a case. He turned down a plea for almost no jail time because he was innocent.”
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