This has been a major week for ASAP Rocky: A few days ago, he was found not guilty in his felony assault trial and therefore avoided potentially years in prison. Rihanna showed up to court dates to support the father of her children, even though he didn’t want her there.

Rocky’s lawyer Joe Tacopina had a strong message for critics who thought Rihanna shouldn’t have brought her kids to court earlier this month. “One day Rihanna brought the babies to court, and people were thinking it was a ploy,

Rocky discovered his fate in a shooting case on Tuesday and immediately embraced his partner Rihanna in the courtroom after the verdict

ASAP Rocky had a major life moment yesterday (February 19): He received the verdict in his felony gun trial. He was charged with two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm over a confrontation with ASAP Relli in 2021. Ultimately, he was facing up to eight years in prison, but fortunately, he was found not guilty.

Even though A$AP Rocky‘s felony shooting case has been put to bed, the rapper's lawyer is still coming to the rapper and his family's defense. In a new interview, Joe Tacopina addressed claims that Rihanna only brought the famous couple's two young kids to court as a "ploy" to garner sympathy - something the attorney unilaterally shut down.

"People were thinking it was a ploy, like some sort of maneuver to get the jury to feel sympathy. The jury’s not feeling sympathy," the rapper's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, said.

Bringing kids to court isn’t exactly a typical family outing, but for Rihanna, there was a good reason. On Tuesday, February 18, the 36-year-old Barbadian