{"id":4123,"date":"2025-02-12T02:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T02:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/aap-rocky-declines-to-testify-in-shooting-trial\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T02:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T02:04:06","slug":"aap-rocky-declines-to-testify-in-shooting-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/aap-rocky-declines-to-testify-in-shooting-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"A$AP Rocky Declines to Testify in Shooting Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tA$AP Rocky waived his right to testify on Tuesday (Feb. 11) during the ongoing trial over accusations that he fired a gun at former friend A$AP Relli near a Hollywood hotel in November 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/02\/11\/asap-rocky-not-testifying-relli-shooting-trial\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>TMZ <\/em>video<\/a>, Superior Court\u00a0Judge Mark S. Arnold reminds the former A$AP Mob rapper (real name Rakim Mayers) that he has the \u201cright to get on the stand and give your side of the case\u201d and the \u201cright under the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution not to testify.\u201d When asked which right he wanted to invoke, Rocky responded by saying, \u201cI want my right to not testify.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tRocky was more vocal in court on Friday (Feb. 7) when he urged A$AP Twelvyy not to reveal the meaning behind AWGE, the former\u2019s creative agency and record label. Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney John Lewin\u00a0had asked Twelvyy to tell the courtroom what the letters stood for when Rocky insisted, \u201cDon\u2019t say it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tRocky\u2019s attorney <strong>Joe Tacopina<\/strong> said on Monday (Feb. 10) that either his client would take the stand on Tuesday or the defense would rest its case, according to the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/asap-rocky-shooting-trial-la-d727815dccc39150f80b10b90fd7eb1a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a>. <\/em>Closing arguments will begin Thursday morning (Feb. 13) and the jury will start deliberations that afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tRocky is charged with two felony counts of assault with a firearm and faces 24 years in prison if convicted after turning down a plea deal\u00a0for just 180 days in county jail. He was arrested in April 2022 at Los Angeles International Airport\u00a0and posted a $550,000 bond shortly after. He\u00a0pleaded not guilty\u00a0to all charges in August 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A$AP Rocky waived his right to testify on Tuesday (Feb. 11) during the ongoing trial over accusations that he fired a gun at former friend A$AP Relli near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3863,774,3864,2735,3817,342],"class_list":["post-4123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-aap","tag-declines","tag-rocky","tag-shooting","tag-testify","tag-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123","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=4123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}