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.

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,