Judge releases A$AP Rocky from custody until assault trial verdict
ASAP Rocky (back-R) reacts as he leaves the district court in Stockholm, Sweden by car on the third day of the rapper's June street brawl assault trial, August 2, 2019. TT News Agency/Fredrik Persson via REUTERS
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The Swedish judge in the assault trial of U.S. rapper A$AP Rocky and two of his entourage ordered that the three men be released from custody on Friday until the verdict.
Senior District Court Judge Per Lennerbrant told the court at the end of the three-day trial that he would hand down the verdict on Aug. 14.
Mayers and two of his friends were detained on July 3 in connection with a street brawl on June 30 and charged with assault causing actual bodily harm.
Members of the media surround ASAP Rocky's bodyguard's van as he leaves the district court in Stockholm, Sweden on the third day of the rapper's June street brawl assault trial, August 2, 2019. TT News Agency/Naina Helen Jama via REUTERS
(Reporting by Johan Ahlander, writing by Anna Ringstrom)
ASAP Rocky's bodyguard leaves the district court into a black van in Stockholm, Sweden on the third day of the rapper's June street brawl assault trial, August 2, 2019. TT News Agency/Naina Helen Jama via REUTERSA courtroom sketch shows Rakim Athelaston Mayers alias ASAP Rocky and his defence lawyer Slobodan Jovicic during the third day of ASAP Rocky's trial, at the district court in Stockholm, Sweden August 2, 2019. Anna Harvard/TT News Agency via REUTERSA courtroom sketch shows Rakim Athelaston Mayers alias ASAP Rocky and his defence lawyer Slobodan Jovicic during the third day of ASAP Rocky's trial, at the district court in Stockholm, Sweden August 2, 2019. Anna Harvard/TT News Agency via REUTERSRenee Black, mother of ASAP Rocky, leaves the district court in Stockholm, Sweden on the third day of the rapper's June street brawl assault trial, August 2, 2019. TT News Agency/Fredrik Persson via REUTERSASAP Rocky's defence lawyer Slobodan Jovicic leaves the district court in Stockholm, Sweden on the third day of the rapper's June street brawl assault trial, August 2, 2019. TT News Agency/Naina Helen Jama via REUTERSRenee Black, mother of ASAP Rocky, leaves the district court in Stockholm, Sweden on the third day of the rapper's June street brawl assault trial, August 2, 2019. TT News Agency/Fredrik Persson via REUTERSASAP Rocky's bodyguard arrives at the district court, during the third day of ASAP Rocky's trial, in Stockholm, Sweden August 2, 2019. TT News Agency/Fredrik Persson via REUTERSRenee Black, mother of ASAP Rocky, arrives at the district court, during the third day of ASAP Rocky's trial, in Stockholm, Sweden August 2, 2019. TT News Agency/Fredrik Persson via REUTERSU.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Robert C. O'Brien arrives at the district court, during the third day of ASAP Rocky's trial, in Stockholm, Sweden August 2, 2019. TT News Agency/Fredrik Persson via REUTERSASAP Rocky's defence lawyer Slobodan Jovicic arrives at the district court, during the third day of ASAP Rocky's trial, in Stockholm, Sweden August 2, 2019. TT News Agency/Fredrik Persson via REUTERSFILE PHOTO: U.S. rapper ASAP Rocky attends the Alexander Wang Spring/Summer 2013 collection during New York Fashion Week, September 8, 2012. REUTERS/Andrew Burton/File Photo
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