The jury for A$AP Rocky’s impending assault trial was set after the three-day choice course of concluded on Thursday (January 23). In accordance with a tweet from court docket reporter Meghann Cuniff, who was on the listening to, it features a firearms knowledgeable.
“We’ve received a jury in A$AP Rocky’s assault with a firearm trial, and it consists of the lady who’s a firearms teacher,” she tweeted. She additionally famous 4 e alternate jurors had been chosen, one in all whom is an leisure lawyer.
However the firearms knowledgeable is regarding for the protection, Cuniff famous. “Lady says her father was a prison protection legal professional, her uncle was a choose and 4 cousins are legal professionals, together with a DA. Additionally, she’s a firearms teacher. One thing tells me the protection is just not going to desire a firearms teacher on the jury to listen to their prop gun protection.”
She added, “Prosecutors already removed a person who mentioned he distrusts police as a result of his father used to beat his mom when he was rising up in Nebraska and the police by no means did something about it. Protection removed a person whose cousin is an LAPD officer on the witness checklist, although prosecutors mentioned he gained’t be known as. Man and his father had been victims of violent crime.”
A$AP Rocky arrived on the courthouse in the present day along with his sister and mom for the third day of jury choice in his gun assault trial.
The choose mentioned the jury will most likely be seated in the present day. https://t.co/NgawTCqBBv pic.twitter.com/TjX51g1v49
— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) January 23, 2025
Cuniff additionally revealed a fan of Rihanna, Rocky’s accomplice and mom of his kids, was on the new seat.
“DA John Lewin is questioning a lady who’s an elementary faculty assistant principal,” she wrote. “She is aware of Rihanna’s music. ‘I don’t know if it’s going to occur, however what if Rihanna is available in right here and also you see her within the viewers?’ He asks if it might be arduous for her, and she or he mentioned no. Lewin asks why she hesitated. ‘I used to be imagining that scenario in my head. Then I answered,’ she says.’”
Curiously, not a single juror chosen was Black, one thing Rev. Al Sharpton took severe situation with earlier this week.
“It has been delivered to my consideration, by the Nationwide Motion Community Los Angeles workplace, that out of 100 and 6 (106) folks known as to doubtlessly sit as jurors in A$AP Rocky’s trial in Los Angeles, there are solely 4 black folks,” Sharpton mentioned in a tweet. “When we have now 4 (4) black folks within the metropolis of Los Angeles, out of 100 and 6 (106) — and precisely zero (0) throughout the first thirty (30) potential candidates for the jury — one thing seems to be very mistaken with the system.”
In whole, 12 jurors had been chosen. They’re white, Asian and Hispanic. The 4 alternate jurors who had been chosen are all girls however none of them Black.
A$AP Rocky’s trial begins on Friday (January 24). He’s been charged with two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm within the 2021 taking pictures of A$AP Relli. He pleaded not responsible. Rocky was provided a plea deal that might have seen him serve 180 days in jail and three years probation, however he “respectfully” declined. He faces as much as 24 years in jail if convicted.
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