8/14/2019

CELEBS/CRIME/SWEDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It looked like a small-time assault case, but, somehow, it swept up Kim Kardashian West, President Trump and the United States’ top hostage negotiator. And on Wednesday it finally reached its conclusion, when judges here in Stockholm found the rapper ASAP Rocky guilty of assault. But he will not serve any more jail time, having already spent over a month in a Swedish detention center. Swedish prosecutors had sought a six-month prison sentence for Rocky for his part in a street brawl in Stockholm on June 30 that left a 19-year-old man bleeding and needing medical treatment. But a panel of four judges, led by Senior Judge Per Lennerbrant, found that the assault was not of such a ‘serious nature that a prison sentence must be chosen.’”

Christina Anderson and Alex Marshall, “ASAP Rocky Guilty of Assault in Sweden but Won’t Face Prison Time,” The New York Times online, August 14, 2019