A $ Ap Rocky: final arguments in the trial for assault of severe crime

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A $ Ap Rocky arrives at the Court on February 4, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (MEGA/GC IMAGES PHOTO)

The lawyers are expected to deliver their final arguments on Thursday at the rapper assault trial turned into a fashion magnate to $ Ap Rocky, who faces two serious assault crimes with a semi -automatic firearm that could bring him years after the bars .

Rocky, whose legal name is Rakim Mayers, was accused in August 2022 for his role in a couple of confrontations with Terell Ephron, also known as a $ AP Filli, on the night of November 6, 2021, in Hollywood.

Filli testified that he saw his former friend outside a parking lot in a partially trapped match in a surveillance video and that the music star nominated for Grammy took out a weapon from his waist, put it towards his stomach and said: “I will kill you Well now. “

The accuser said during a November 2023 hearing that he believed that the 36 -year -old rapper had become “large head” due to his success, telling Rocky that he had “failed to all” and stating that no one else was brave enough as to share his honest opinions with him.

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Filling claimed that Rocky turned around and shot him, saying that he believed that his left hand had been touched by the shots. He said he waited until he arrived in New York to go to a hospital days later to find medical treatment for his three wounded knuckles, saying he had pain.

Rocky’s lawyer Joe Tacopina argues that the weapon was a “starting gun” that only fired in white. He said that Rocky took him as an accessory for security reasons.

Prosecutors, however, insist that Rocky weed a genuine firearm that fired royal bullets, one of whom injured the filler knuckles when he shot. Neither the support weapon nor the alleged genuine firearm occurred in the trial.

Filling testified that after the altercation, he left the scene, but returned approximately one hour later, after the police had registered without success in the area evidence of shots, and found two shells of shells in the street. He said he took the police to the police two days later.

A detective from the Los Angeles Police Department testified that he did not see Filli in a surveillance video that showed Hollywood street at the time the accuser says he found the shell housings apparently from the gun that allegedly used to shoot him.

Rocky refused to take the position in his own defense.

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On Tuesday, the lawyers of both parties reached an agreement that was read to the jury that a testimony of the Final Prosecutor He was fired.

So that Rocky is declared assault with a semi -automatic firearm, prosecutors must demonstrate that the weapon was real.

In the jury instructions on Tuesday, the judge of the Superior Court Mark Arnold told the jury that they can consider self -defense as a possible reason.

After the lawyers give their sums on Thursday, the case is expected to go to the jury for deliberations.

The pop star Rihanna, Rocky’s couple and the mother of the two children of the couple, has appeared in the court room five times since the trial began on January 24 to show support to her boyfriend.

Filli, the key witness in the case of the Prosecutor’s Office, testified for several days, often attacking defense lawyer Tacopina, showing anger and suspicion of the questions.

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Before opening statements last month, Rocky rejected a guilt agreement that would have required him to declare himself guilty of one of the two assault charges of a serious crime with a semi -automatic firearm and turned six months after the bars.

In his opening, Tacopina accused Filling of being promoted by “jealousy, lies and greed”, and claimed that he invented parts of his story of being attacked to reinforce an attempt to extort Rocky’s cash.

Rocky was arrested in April 2022 upon returning to Los Angeles from a trip with Rihanna to his native beards. Filli filed a claim for assault, aggression and emotional anguish against Rocky four months later.