Rapper Mystikal to be arraigned on rape, different costs
4 min readBy Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS: The Grammy-nominated hip-hop performer Mystikal is scheduled for arraignment on costs accusing him of raping and choking a lady, and illegally possessing medication at his Louisiana dwelling.
Charges the performer will face throughout his arraignment Monday will embrace first-degree rape, which carries an computerized life sentence if Tyler is convicted.
“My client is innocent of all charges,” lawyer Joel Pearce stated in a textual content message Thursday. He stated the rapper, whose given identify is Michael Tyler, had a court docket order to guard him from the girl, and he’s “the true victim.”
Pearce stated he hopes he shall be allowed to current proof supporting bond for Tyler, who has been held with out bond for the reason that finish of July. A decide denied bond on Aug. 4, however Pearce, who didn’t then signify the performer, stated it was not a full bond listening to that will take proof in Tyler’s favor.
Tyler was arrested July 31 on costs accusing him of choking and raping the girl at his dwelling in Prairieville, an Ascension Parish group of about 33,000 close to Baton Rouge.
A information launch Wednesday from the district lawyer’s workplace stated Tyler was indicted final week on 10 counts together with rape, home abuse battery by strangulation and false imprisonment. Investigators who searched his dwelling discovered “evidence to corroborate the victim’s account of the rape along with a variety of illegal narcotics,” the assertion stated.
An Ascension Parish grand jury introduced the costs in two indictments handed up on Sept. 6, The Advocate reported.
District Attorney Ricky Babin stated in an e mail that as a result of they’re a part of an ongoing prison matter, the indictments are usually not public information below state regulation.
Pearce represented Tyler on rape and kidnapping costs that prosecutors in northwest Louisiana dropped in December 2020. Those costs, introduced in 2017, had stored him jailed almost 18 months earlier than he was launched on $3 million bond.
Mystikal instructed The Associated Press in April 2021 that he now could be happy with lyrics he can think about rapping to God.
His 2000 hit “Shake (It Fast) earned a 2001 Grammy nomination for best rap solo. In 2003, his “Tarantula” was nominated for greatest rap album and the one “Bouncin’ Back” for greatest male rap solo.
He pleaded responsible to sexual battery later in 2003. He served six years in jail.
NEW ORLEANS: The Grammy-nominated hip-hop performer Mystikal is scheduled for arraignment on costs accusing him of raping and choking a lady, and illegally possessing medication at his Louisiana dwelling.
Charges the performer will face throughout his arraignment Monday will embrace first-degree rape, which carries an computerized life sentence if Tyler is convicted.
“My client is innocent of all charges,” lawyer Joel Pearce stated in a textual content message Thursday. He stated the rapper, whose given identify is Michael Tyler, had a court docket order to guard him from the girl, and he’s “the true victim.”
Pearce stated he hopes he shall be allowed to current proof supporting bond for Tyler, who has been held with out bond for the reason that finish of July. A decide denied bond on Aug. 4, however Pearce, who didn’t then signify the performer, stated it was not a full bond listening to that will take proof in Tyler’s favor.
Tyler was arrested July 31 on costs accusing him of choking and raping the girl at his dwelling in Prairieville, an Ascension Parish group of about 33,000 close to Baton Rouge.
A information launch Wednesday from the district lawyer’s workplace stated Tyler was indicted final week on 10 counts together with rape, home abuse battery by strangulation and false imprisonment. Investigators who searched his dwelling discovered “evidence to corroborate the victim’s account of the rape along with a variety of illegal narcotics,” the assertion stated.
An Ascension Parish grand jury introduced the costs in two indictments handed up on Sept. 6, The Advocate reported.
District Attorney Ricky Babin stated in an e mail that as a result of they’re a part of an ongoing prison matter, the indictments are usually not public information below state regulation.
Pearce represented Tyler on rape and kidnapping costs that prosecutors in northwest Louisiana dropped in December 2020. Those costs, introduced in 2017, had stored him jailed almost 18 months earlier than he was launched on $3 million bond.
Mystikal instructed The Associated Press in April 2021 that he now could be happy with lyrics he can think about rapping to God.
His 2000 hit “Shake (It Fast) earned a 2001 Grammy nomination for best rap solo. In 2003, his “Tarantula” was nominated for greatest rap album and the one “Bouncin’ Back” for greatest male rap solo.
He pleaded responsible to sexual battery later in 2003. He served six years in jail.
