A $ Ap Rocky faces 24 years in prison: the jury begins deliberation

Los Angeles: The jury members in the trial for aggression of a crime of assault of a Rocky $ AP obtained the case on Friday night after a prosecutor told them in their final argument that they must put aside their feelings for The hip-hop star, his superstar wife singer Rihanna, and her young children.

The jury of Los Angeles of seven women and five men obtained the case at the end of the day and will begin to discuss two assault charges with a semi -automatic firearm on Tuesday, after a three -day weekend.

The convictions for both positions could mean up to 24 years in prison.

Rihanna arrived at the courts shortly after the closing arguments began on Thursday, as he did often during the trial of three weeks. But for the first time he brought his children of 2 years and 1 year.

District attached prosecutor John Lewin suggested that it was an attempt to manipulate jurors.

“Yesterday they brought two adorable children for the closure of arguments,” Lewin said. “They have not been here at any other time. And they must ask, why would children of that age be here in a situation like this?

He added: “He is not allowed to consider how this could affect Rihanna and his children. We are all responsible for our own actions in the world. “

Rihanna was sitting with Rocky’s mother and sister, without the children, on Friday. She and Rocky abandoned the courtroom, surrounded by security.

Rocky is accused of shooting two shots to a former friend in a corner of Hollywood Street in 2021.

His lawyers argued that he only triggered a support gun that he had collected for security in a music video session.

During his final argument, the lawyer Joe Tacopina launched his accuser, who goes through a $ AP Fill, such as the aggressor and an unreliable liar.

Tacopina showed the belligerent text messages of the jury just before the confrontation, then eliminated by FILLI, where Rocky urge him to hit him. The Prosecutor’s Office had shown only Rocky’s angry responses to suggest that the fight began. But it was not the fault of the opposition lawyers, he said.

“His witness lied to the police and eliminated the messages,” Tacopina said. “It destroyed the evidence.”

Tacopina showed the members of the jury the transcription of the moment during the testimony that she faced Filling about the messages.

“At first he said: ‘I don’t remember’. Then I showed him the messages,” Tacopina said. “What did he say later? His reference line. ‘It’s false! It’s false! Anything that crushed him was false.”

He lived on how he was stuffed at the stage.

“That was in front of you,” Tacopina said. “Imagine how it is on the street.”

Changing to the street, Tacopina narrated the surveillance video that partially showed the initial confrontation to say that filling began the fight. He pointed out that the video shows Filling raising his arm to face Rocky as the first movement, although Rocky is out of the time.

“If he had to make a decision, the most important in his life or that of his family, in his word, would he? Everyone knows what the answer to that question is, ”said the lawyer. Then he pointed to Rocky. “What they ask you to do is make that decision in the most important issue of your life.”

Filli said that his knuckles were passed through one of the shots, but otherwise he was not injured.

Even if the jury members do not buy the false gun argument, they can acquit when discovering that Rocky was acting in defense of himself or his friends.

None of the parties produced a weapon as evidence.

In his refutation, Lewin said: “If it is a support gun, there is no self -defense.”

Lewin told jurors that this could be “a five -minute verdict.”

“Once you decide that it is not a support gun, and it is not a support gun,” he said, “the case is over.”

He repeatedly returned to the state of Rocky.

“He is a big and important man, and everyone serves,” Lewin said.

That includes, he said, two men from his intimate circle who testified that he had collected the support gun in a music video and for months they had taken him.

“They were just liars, they started to finish,” Lewin said.

During a break in the presentation, Judge Mark Arnold told Lewin to stop references to Rocky’s family.

“The way you did, I don’t think it was inappropriate,” said the judge. “But you can’t mention that Rihanna is in the courtroom, or children are in the courtroom.”