Spike Lee is exceptionally completely happy ASAP Rocky won’t be spending any time behind bars. ASAP stars in Lee’s forthcoming movie, Highest 2 Lowest. The Spike Lee Joint will arrive with Rocky’s co-star, Denzel Washington, this summer season.
A$AP Rocky was discovered not responsible on all counts in his felony assault trial, the place he was accused of taking pictures A$AP Relli in November 2021.
The trial started on Jan. 24 and concluded almost three weeks in a while February 14. After deliberating for about three hours on February 18, the jury reached a verdict, prompting cheers within the courtroom. Rocky, overwhelmed with emotion, jumped over the barrier to embrace his household.
Rocky had confronted two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, expenses that carried a possible 24-year jail sentence. Prosecutors, nevertheless, had deliberate to suggest eight to 10 years if convicted.
The jury, composed of seven girls and 5 males, in the end discovered Rocky not responsible. The protection’s argument could have influenced their resolution that he solely fired blanks or acted in self-defense. Moreover, the prosecution could not have offered a robust sufficient case.
The prosecution’s case relied closely on A$AP Relli’s testimony, together with surveillance footage capturing the sound of gunfire and a scuffle earlier than the alleged taking pictures. Rocky’s lawyer, Joe Tacopina, dismissed Relli as “an offended pathological liar” who repeatedly dedicated perjury. The protection introduced testimony from two of Rocky’s associates, who acknowledged that he had solely carried a prop gun.
