A$AP Rocky trial nears deliberations as closing arguments set to finish

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A$AP Rocky’s lawyer is expected to finish delivering his closing argument Friday at the hip-hop star’s trial, where the defense is trying to persuade jurors that the former friend Rocky is charged with shooting at took the stand and “lied to you about so many crucial things.”Closing arguments began Thursday, when Rocky’s longtime partner, the singing superstar Rihanna, walked quietly into the downtown Los Angeles courtroom after proceedings began, as she has several times during the three-week trial.

She brought their two young sons.Rocky’s lawyer Joe Tacopina reminded the jurors that their instructions allow them to disregard everything a witness says if the jurors believe they are being dishonest in any part of their testimony.He told them if they do that with Rocky’s accuser, who goes by A$AP Relli, “there is no case.”“This is a man whose tongue is a stranger to the truth,” Tacopina said. “The important facts he gave you turned out to be lies.”Jurors are expected to begin deliberations on two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm after the defense finishes its closing and prosecutors offer a rebuttal.In the prosecution’s closing argument, Deputy District Attorney Paul Przelomiec told jurors they have “one critical question” to answer.“Was it a real gun or was it a fake gun?” he said. “Nothing else is in dispute.”He told jurors the “overwhelming evidence in this case is that it was a real gun” that Rocky fired on a Hollywood street corner on Nov.