Los Angeles – In a section of crucial questioning for the defense of an $ AP Rocky, his lawyer challenged the account of his accuser on Friday, who said that he had undergone hand injury when the artist Hip -Hop drew a weapon over him in 2021.
Singer Superstar Rihanna, the Rocky partner and the mother of their two children, looked at the public as the man who goes through a $ AP Relli, a former Rocky friend, suffered a second day of counter-examination at the trial From Los Angeles who has obviously left him frustrated and sometimes angry.
She slipped before the court for a third day about 30 minutes from the testimony and sits next to the mother of Rocky after entering a public entrance. After the lunch break, she entered the courtroom with Rocky for the first time. She left separately and went up in a SUV outside the courthouse, saying “I’m fine, thank you” when a journalist asked how she was standing. She had been secretly brought during her two previous visits.
Rell had testified under the accusation by asking that his hand felt hot when Rocky had shot him on a Hollywood street and that his hand was grazed. A photo was shown on scratches that had torn the skin on its joints.
He did not consult a doctor until two days later in New York.
“Have you waited to steal the whole country across the country before seeking medical care?” Defense lawyer Joe Tacopina asked.
“I had my hand wrapped that evening,” said Relli, then recognized that he had done so.
He said that after the incident: “I don’t trust the. I didn’t trust anyone.
Rocky lawyers argue that Relli only asked for medical care because the lawyer in a distinct civilian case where he is looking for money to the rapper told him that he should.
Relli first denied having acted on the advice of his lawyer, but later conceded after hearing his previous testimony.
“You really don’t care to involve the police, your end of the game obtained Rocky money, right?” Asked Tacopina.
Relli replied: “No. I wanted protection. I was not sure that it would not happen again.
Tacopina also challenged him the short time he spent in the hospital.
“It’s an hour and 36 minutes for a shot, yes?” The lawyer said.
“It was two days later,” replied Rell.
Anticipating the defense tactic, the accusation told the jurors during their declaration of opening that for the accusations of the case – two chiefs of assault with a semi -automatic firearm – it does not matter that Rell was hurt.
Conclusions of guilt on the two counts could lead to a maximum of 24 years in prison for Rocky.
This verdict could be a major turning point in the rapper’s life, who this weekend is nominated for his third Grammy Award during a ceremony in Crypto.com Arena just two kilometers from the trial.
Relli appeared angry and frustrated throughout the testimony. He asked several times if the questions were relevant, marted for himself and were to be invited by the judge to answer “yes” or “no”. After listening to three different phone calls from telephone calls that said it was him, he said that two of them were false and said the third did not sound him.
Topina asked if the latter, in which Relli would have said he would move away from the criminal affair if he was paid millions, was also false.
“I don’t know, you tell me!” Said Relli. “You are the one who puts all this in front of me.”
The calls came from someone named Wally, who recorded it. Relli first said that he did not know him, then said he knew him, then he said that the person called him all the time.
“He always hits me, asking me how I’m going,” said Relli. “Now I know why.
But he continued to insist on questioning that the calls played in the courtroom were false.
The defense put an end to his counterfeitment after having scored these points. Relli, whose testimony began on Wednesday afternoon, will be back on the stand on Monday for more issues of the accusation.
Rocky lawyers argue, in a revelation made just before the start of the trial, that the weapon he drew was a starting pistol that only wore whites that he had as an accessory for safety. They allege that Rell knew it.
Relli testified under the continuation of the accusation that he had not known Rocky to carry a firearm.
When Tacopina returned to the question, Relli covered.
“I don’t really relax with him every day, I don’t know,” he said. “Since the moment I relaxed with him, I did not know how to carry weapons.”
Tacopina continued: “Well, one thing you know, is certainly that he does not wear a propeller pistol.”
“Who has a propeller gun?” Relli replied. “Who will come to a situation and wear an accessory pistol?”
After the jury was dismissed for lunch, a vicious argument broke out between Tacopina and the deputy prosecutor John Lewin, who shouted that the entire defense affair had not approached the real incident, y Understood “This fireworks tree!”
“Oh?! Oh!?” Shouted Topina. “We will see what the jury says at the end!”
Tacopina then called a perjury and declared that the prosecutors had encouraged him.
As he became even stronger and more personal, the judge, who seemed to be disgusted, was out.
He had already asked men, who often had heads, only to talk to each other in the file. In this case, they were, although the cameras were disabled.
Rocky and Rihanna, both of 36, have two sons together: Rza Athelston Mayers, 2, and Riot Rose Mayers, aged one year.
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This story was corrected to show the quote on receiving telephone calls from an $ AP Relli, not a $ AP Rocky.