{"id":3067,"date":"2024-10-23T15:15:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T15:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/aap-rocky-trial-on-gun-charges-set-for-next-year\/"},"modified":"2024-10-23T15:15:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T15:15:14","slug":"aap-rocky-trial-on-gun-charges-set-for-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/aap-rocky-trial-on-gun-charges-set-for-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"A$AP Rocky Trial On Gun Charges Set for Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tA$AP Rocky\u00a0is set to go to trial in Los Angeles early next year on charges that he fired a gun at a former friend and collaborator on the streets near a Hollywood hotel in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe trial of the 36-year-old rapper, fashion mogul, Grammy nominee and celebrity co-chair of the next\u00a0Met Gala\u00a0is set to begin with jury selection on Jan. 21. He has pleaded not guilty to\u00a0two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm. Trial had been scheduled to start Nov. 12, but his team asked at a hearing Tuesday that it be postponed because he is headlining the Rolling Loud music festival in Thailand next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSuperior Court <strong>Judge Mark S. Arnold<\/strong> said he will allow video cameras to air the trial that\u2019s expected to last about two weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI believe that the public deserves to see what goes on in the courtroom,\u201d the judge said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHe asked defense lawyer <strong>Joe Tacopina<\/strong> whether Rihanna, with whom Rocky is in a relationship and has two children, plans to attend the trial so he could make proper security accommodations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTacopina said he doesn\u2019t know, but \u201cI almost guarantee not every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAnother judge ruled after a preliminary hearing nearly a year ago that\u00a0Rocky should stand trial\u00a0for allegedly firing a gun at <strong>Terell Ephron<\/strong>, a childhood friend who testified that their relationship had soured and a feud came to a head on the night of Nov. 6, 2021. Ephron testified that bullets grazed his knuckles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tRocky could get up to 24 years in prison if convicted on all charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTacopina said outside the courtroom Tuesday that he was confident Rocky would clear his name, and that despite the delay, \u201cHe\u2019s eager to get to trial. Having this hanging over his head is not something he wants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tRocky was recently selected to be a celebrity chair at the\u00a0Met Gala in May\u00a0along with Pharrell Williams, <strong>Lewis Hamilton<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Colman Domingo<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>LeBron James<\/strong>, though the result of the trial could complicate his ability to attend.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A$AP Rocky\u00a0is set to go to trial in Los Angeles early next year on charges that he fired a gun at a former friend and collaborator on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3863,1907,2124,3864,406,342,656],"class_list":["post-3067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-aap","tag-charges","tag-gun","tag-rocky","tag-set","tag-trial","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}