The assault trial of rapper A$AP Rocky, real name Rakim Mayers and partner of Rihanna, has begun in Los Angeles. Joe Tacopina ...

Attorney Joe Tacopina and Deputy District Attorney John Lewin got into a verbal fight during A$AP Rocky's assault trial.

On the first day of A$AP Rocky ’s trial, jurors saw surveillance videos that a prosecutor argued make it clear the rapper fired a gun in 2021 at his former friend ...

During opening arguments in the rap star’s Los Angeles assault trial, defense attorney Joe Tacopina painted Rocky — whose real name is Rakim Mayers — as the victim rather than the aggressor ...

On the first day of A$AP Rocky ’s trial, jurors saw surveillance videos that a prosecutor argued make it clear the rapper fired a gun in 2021 at his former friend ...

“Does the prop gun exist?” Judge Matthew Arnold asked. “The prop gun did exist,” Rocky's lawyer Joe Tacopina said. “It does not now. We don’t have it.” Rocky's lawyers said ...

The proceedings began with LA County Deputy District Attorney Paul Przelomiec outlining the prosecution's case, followed by defense attorney Joe Tacopina, who presented his arguments to the jury.

Ephron's resentment "is the catalyst for this incident," Mayers' attorney Joe Tacopina said. "It was Relli who was looking for a fight," he said adding that CCTV footage from the scene showed it ...

DUTCH/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images Rocky's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, began his statements by claiming that Relli is a "fraud" who is leveraging a "fabricated story to extract money from Rocky." In ...