A$AP Rocky Learns New Begin Date For Assault Trial

A Los Angeles choose rescheduled A$AP Rocky’s assault trial for January 21, 2025, at a pretrial listening to on Tuesday (October 22). The rapper’s trial was beforehand set to start on November 12. His lawyer Joe Tacopina stated the brand new begin date was “last and definitive.”

Choose Mark Arnold delayed the trial partly because of A$AP Rocky acting at a gig in Thailand in late November. Tacopina additionally cited upcoming holidays and points with discovery within the case as causes for it getting pushed to 2025.

“Everybody simply determined it’s finest to do that in January,” Tacopina advised reporters. “It’s a agency date. It’s an actual date. He’s actually desperate to get this finished, to get this behind him. So, [he] was not likely seeking to push this off that far, but it surely’s normal stuff that occurs once you’re doing trials.”

A$AP Rocky, whose actual title is Rakim Mayers, faces trial for assault with a semiautomatic firearm. Prosecutors accuse him of taking pictures his former good friend A$AP Relli in 2021.

“I’m assured in figuring out that he will probably be vindicated,” Tacopina stated. “This has been a burden for him and his household … However he’s a terrific man. He actually is. And he’s dealt with this in addition to any human being can deal with it. And he’s prepared. He’s able to face this head on and we’re able to face this head on. And he’ll be OK when that is all stated and finished.”

A$AP Rocky’s lawyer Joe Tacopina says firearm assault trial pushed to Jan. 21 “partially” as a result of Rocky because of carry out at profit live performance in Bangkok in late Nov

“He will probably be vindicated,” Tacopina says. “This has been a burden for him & his household…He’s able to face this head on” pic.twitter.com/Ql99qbsxv1

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Choose Arnold stated Rihanna, the mom of Rocky’s two youngsters, is welcome to attend the trial. Tacopina didn’t know if Rihanna deliberate to seem in court docket.

“That’s a household resolution they should make,” Tacopina stated. “She clearly is a really well-known, crucial particular person. She additionally has two younger youngsters that I feel she desires to defend from all this.”

Rocky faces as much as 9 years in jail if convicted. He maintains innocence.