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A$AP Rocky Declines Testifying In A$AP Relli Shooting Trial | TMZ Live
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2/11/2025
A$AP Rocky is saving his words for his next album or potential victory speech -- he won't be testifying in his assault trial!!!
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Welcome back to TMZ live ASAP Rocky's assault trial continues here in LA but
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his defense team has made a big decision he will not take the stand and that's
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typically what happens right that whoever's on trial it's very risky to
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take very very risky and especially I think in this case if you if you we if
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you could talk to his defense I think they feel pretty confident about how the
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trial has gone up to this point that there have been a lot of points where
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they've been able to raise some doubt and and their whole line the whole
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strategy about the fact that they say this gun was just a starter pistol was
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not could not fire any bullets that were gonna actually do any harm to ASAP
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rally they seem to be making some in some inroads they may well be making in
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roads but it is so unsurprising that he's not taking the stand it is such a
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risky move because you do that and on cross you open yourself up to everything
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and you make one really damning statement against your interest and it
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could sway the jury so it's it's so high risk and especially if you feel like
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you're you know all you have to do is create doubt and you win and if they
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feel they're in that territory why play with dynamite yeah defendants taking the
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stand in their own defense is only done as a Hail Mary really you know I don't
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know what the percentages are Harvey I've got to think that 95% of cases do
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not involve the defendant testifying for him or herself it would be a real sign
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desperation of course the fact he's not testifying doesn't necessarily think
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they're more confident I agree there have been some really good facts for
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them that have come out in the case but you never know but it way too risky to
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put him on the stand yeah you remember when ASAP rally was on the stand Joe
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Takapino it was a lawyer right lawyer well it was cross-examining ASAP rally
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the alleged victim and really had him on the ropes had him you know sort of
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second-guessing some of the facts that were presented so I think Takapino
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probably feels like we're doing well here plus don't forget the Rihanna fact
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I was just gonna say that Rihanna for several days not every day but several
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days she was there she's been there quite a bit yes a lot more than I
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thought she was going to be and she has been sitting there right behind him
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difference I will say though it could be the worst moment of the trial was when
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ASAP Rocky audibly instructed a was it a separately not to answer a question was
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not a separately was another member of the ASAP mob but it was someone he was
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friends with and yeah on the stand that was crazy jurors hear stuff like this
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you never really know what's going to tip a juror one way or the other there's
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a really bad moment they hear things and like why is this guy instructing a
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witness not to answer a question and it didn't seem particularly relevant it had
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to do with an insignia on a bedsheet with these letters the letters on what
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they meant he it's like what what does that have to do with whether he fired
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this gun at all but I think the prosecutors knew that he was good that
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ASAP 12e was the guy who was on the stand that he wasn't going to say it
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because this is and I didn't know this until that moment happened in the trial
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and I went and looked up a WGE that was the letters they were asking about it's
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an agency that that ASAP Rocky formed and when you go to the website it
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literally says rule number one never tell anyone what a WGE stands for so the
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prosecutors it's Fight Club clearly knew that the witness wasn't going to
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answer it and the witness wanted to show the witness stonewalling and maybe even
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bait Rocky into saying don't tell him what it is well I don't know how they
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baited him who would think that the defendants gonna say don't answer that
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question and it's like oh my god I actually have a different theory I
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think he's more guilty by saying those words on the stand by telling his partner
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or his buddy not to say those words I think it looks guilty and so I think he
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should testify at his own trial I mean I don't know if it was me I would be like
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put me in coach I got to state my case I'm not guilty I'm innocent
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rally is way more important and relevant than bet cheat right right just way more
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right and the exactly even though it doesn't look bad I think ultimately the
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jury's gonna look at it go like well what relevance that really that's right
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