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A$AP Rocky‘s lawyer is speaking out. The 36-year-old rapper’s legal rep Joe Tacopina addressed claims that Rihanna only brought their two young kids to court as a “ploy” to garner sympathy amid his felony shooting case, in which he was found not guilty. During a conversation on The Breakfast Club, the lawyer reflected on Rocky’s final day in Los Angeles court last week, during which the jury of 12 found him not guilty for two felony counts of assault with a firearm over a 2021 incident with former friend A$AP Relli. At the end of the trial, the 37-year-old Fenty Beauty star brought 2-year-old RZA and 1-year-old Riot Rose with her to watch summations. Keep reading to find out more… “One day Rihanna brought the babies to court, and people were thinking it was a ploy, like some sort of maneuver to get the jury to feel sympathy,” he said on the show. “The jury’s not feeling sympathy; they know he has a wife and kids.” “It was more because it was the last day of the trial … she brought them to court because that could’ve been the last time he’d seen his kids for a decade or more,” he continued. “That’s why she brought them. The prosecutor made a big deal of it in his summation, which I think was a fatal mistake.” Rocky had been facing up to 24 years in prison if convicted for the 2021 incident, during which Relli accused Rocky of shooting a gun at him twice near a Hollywood hotel. Rocky previously turned down a plea deal that would’ve given him 180 days behind bars, three years of probation and a seven-year suspended sentence. “He didn’t want her there,” the attorney said to press a few days ago. “He was very protective of her … But she called me one day and she was like, ‘Joe, wild horses aren’t going to keep me away, so let him know I’m coming and deal with him.’” Watch the full conversation…
