Published at 11:08 AM, January 17, 2025
and last upgraded 4:34 PM, January 21, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP/Court Television)– A$ AP Rocky is dealing with trial on charges that he fired a weapon at a previous good friend and partner on the streets near a Hollywood hotel in 2021.
Rocky, whose legal name is Rakim Mayers, is charged with 2 felony counts of attack with a semiautomatic gun. District attorneys have actually stated he might get up to 24 years in jail if founded guilty on all charges.
A$ AP Rocky positions for professional photographers upon arrival at the Fashion Awards 2024 on Monday, Dec. 2, 2024, in London. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)
Rocky was jailed in April 2022, and pleaded innocent to the charges later on that year. As jury choice started, he refused a plea contract that would have suggested 180 days in prison.
At an initial hearing in 2023, Terell Ephron affirmed that he and Rocky, a good friend given that youth, had actually come from the exact same cumulative of artists and artists at their New York high school.
He stated their relationship had actually begun to sour and led to the standoff in Hollywood on Nov. 6, 2021, when he stated Rocky initially pulled a weapon on him and, in a later conflict, fired shots that grazed Ephron’s knuckles. District attorneys declared security video that recorded parts of the occurrence “proves precisely what Mr. Ephron stated.”
At that hearing, Rocky’s lawyer, Joe Tacopina, developed while questioning a cops investigator that 7 officers who browsed a walkway and street about 20 minutes after the shots were supposedly fired discovered no proof of the shooting, which a set of 9 mm shell cases in cops belongings were recuperated by Ephron, who went back to the scene about an hour after the standoff.
Jury choice is set up to start Jan. 21.
