"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.

Rihanna brought her and A$AP Rocky’s two children, RZA and Riot, to a Los Angeles court Thursday, where closing arguments in the rapper’s gun assault trial were set to take place.

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.