Defense lawyer said on Friday that on the night that the founding member of the New York rap crew helped to launch his career, ASAP ROCKY was only carrying a “pistol” from a music video that could not shoot real bullets.
During the opening arguments in the trial of the Los Angeles star’s attack, defense lawyer Joe Takobina Rocky – whose real name is Rakim Maires – as a victim instead of the aggressor in a case of assault that could end up facing up to 20 years in prison.
Prosecutors have accused Maeers of shooting Terill Everon, also known as the fastest possible time, at the Corner of Hollywood Street after a hot argument on November 6, 2021. The two were long friends and members of the Harlem rap as quickly as possible – which is standing. Always strive and “Prosper” – but have grown in recent years.
While a lot of the claim was broadcast Last year during a preliminary hearing, This week was the first time that the audience took a look at the Takobina defense strategy. For an hour on Friday afternoon, Takobina cleared Efron’s credibility, on the pretext that he only informed the police to the police to increase a civil lawsuit and insisted that he knew that Maires was carrying a fake weapon.
Takobina pointed to the fact that LAPD officers did not find “any evidence” of the shooting when they responded to 911 calls in the area that night, and they asked how Efron – not the police – managed to restore shell covers when he returned to the scene of the accident an hour later.
“What you will learn is that Riley returned to this scene an hour later and tried to manufacture evidence,” said Takobina. “These are some offensive things.”
But the prosecutors presented the disclosure shortly before the start of the arguments on Friday, which could increase this approach.
Deputy Dist. Atty. John Lewin said that the prosecutors received a late “ballistic evidence” from the Los Angeles Police Department on the eve of the trial. The analysis confirmed, according to Luen, that the covers of the throat that were recovered in the filming scene were probably launched from a 9 mm pistol. Lewin said the “somewhat unique” signs can match a “sub -group” of Glock.
While the police have never found the weapon used in the shooting, the evidence can undermine the “PROP Gun” defense, because this device will launch the voids, not 9 mm tours.
Takobina was angry at the eleventh hour and asked the Supreme Court Judge in Los Angeles Mark Arnold to delay the arguments or the re -selection of the jury in light of the new information. Arnold rejected both requests, noting that the evidence was not a “smoking pistol”, such as an eyewitness claiming that Maeers was the shooter.
“This is not true. Takobina said, referring to Mairez:” This is not justice for him, “noting Mairez.
A LAPD spokeswoman could not immediately explain the reason for handing the evidence very late in a case of police to the prosecutors in 2022.
Takobina said that the case was about “jealousy, lying, and greed” to Everon, noting that the accused was not reported to the shoot to LAPD even after two days, after he kept a civil lawyer. He also referred to text messages, Efron, claiming that he would get this … money “from Mires.
“This issue revolves around the money … an attempt to blackmail Riley so that he can continue to finance his high lifestyle,” said Takobina.
Takobina said it was a “miracle” that Evron was able to restore the curtain covers after seven LAPD officers and did not find anything. He repeatedly called for the prosecutor as “Perjurer” who knew that Maires was carrying a pistol.
Mayers have a permit to carry a hidden weapon in California, according to TacOPINA, but it did not pack a real firearm although it was threatened in the months before the shooting. Takobina said that Mairez took the pistol from a newly video clip collection that he photographed alongside Rihanna, his partner for a long time and has two children.
In his opening statement, Deputy Dist. Atty. Paul Berzelomic said the case was not “complicated” and largely played a pair of monitoring videos that showed that Mairez and Everon were arguing and wrestling with each other on Arjil Street in Hollywood.
Myers, who was surrounded by two other founding members of the ASAP crew, can be seen with a pistol from his belt in one video. The second section picks up the audio fixed organic pollutants that appear to be gunfire, but does not pick up the shooting clip.
Przelomiec Mayers described as the aggressor in the accident, pointing to the texts sent by Efron asking to meet hours before the shooting. The couple was arguing over the text in recent weeks because Evron, by mistake, believes that Maeers did not pay the funeral of a member of the crew who died due to an overdose of the drug.
While Everon’s injuries were very simple – the small pictures were shown on two joints – Broselic indicated that severe wounds are not necessary for the jury to find what is guilty of the attack. PRZELOMIC also said that he was not interested in the failure of LAPD to locate the coincidence of the accident, noting that the calls to 911 on the night of the accident did not specify the exact site of the shooting.
PRZELOMIC also referred to an inspection order that was implemented in 2022 at the Mayers’ Los Angeles headquarters, where the police regained a half -blank magazine. Takobina reported that the ammunition in the magazine was a different brand of the type Efron, he said he recovered at the scene. There is no criminal evidence linking Mairez to the coincidences.
Takobina said that the case relies entirely on Everon’s certificate.
“These cases rise or fall on his credibility. Takobina said:” The videos that I saw, without his testimony, do not prove anything at all. “You need to believe his testimony and copying the events of the video to prove these accusations.”
Meanwhile, Przelomiec drew a picture of betrayal, one where Efron went to meet Mairez in the hope of reforming their broken friendship and did not expect the violence to be met.
“In his mental state, he never thought that he would be shot. Berzelomic said,” He did not believe that the defendant would have already shot him. “
But as their argument exacerbated, in seconds before he claimed that he was shot, Efron had awareness, according to Przelomiec.
The prosecutor said: “These men did not come here to make peace with him.”
