Grammy-nominated rapper Mystikal pleaded not responsible on Monday (Sept. 19) to costs accusing him of raping and choking a girl at his residence in Louisiana and of possessing a number of medication.
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The 51-year-old performer whose given title is Michael Tyler is harmless of all costs, legal professional Joel Pearce stated after the arraignment in Ascension Parish courtroom in Gonzales, about 15 miles from Baton Rouge.
The costs embody first-degree rape, which carries an computerized life sentence.
Pearce stated he has not been in a position to get copies of the 2 indictments, however they have been learn aloud in courtroom.
Expenses additionally embody easy legal harm to property, false imprisonment, home abuse battery by strangulation, easy theft, possession of heroin, marijuana, methamphetamine and Xanax, and possession of drug paraphernalia, he stated.
“My consumer doesn’t even do medication, so he has completely no concept what they have been speaking about,” Pearce stated in a phone interview throughout his 250-mile (402-kilometer) drive from Gonzales to Shreveport.
He stated bond could also be mentioned at a listening to Oct. 17. Prosecutors stated they plan to convey up Tyler’s 2003 responsible plea to sexual battery and extortion as proof of prior crimes, stated Pearce.
Tyler and two bodyguards had videotaped themselves in intercourse acts with Tyler’s hairstylist. The prosecutor in that case, Sue Bernie, stated in 2003 that the lady informed investigators that Tyler accused her of stealing $80,000 value of his checks and informed her he wouldn’t go to police if she did one thing “degrading.” The lady denied stealing any cash, Bernie stated.
A letter in courtroom data earlier than Tyler’s sentencing said that he had paid the lady $350,000.
He served six years in jail on that conviction, which got here the identical yr that he was nominated for 2 Grammy awards. He additionally obtained a Grammy nomination in 2001.
Pearce stated he doesn’t know what the lady who’s now accusing Tyler allegedly was robbed of, however the legal harm cost accuses him of breaking the band of her Apple watch.
Pearce represented Tyler on rape and kidnapping costs that prosecutors in northwest Louisiana dropped in December 2020. These costs, introduced in 2017, had saved Tyler jailed practically 18 months earlier than he was launched on $3 million bond.
“Individuals maintain saying it’s his third time to be charged” with rape, Pearce stated, however Tyler pleaded responsible to a lesser cost in Baton Rouge. “And in Caddo Parish, after a grand jury indicted him, they un-indicted him.”
Mystikal informed The Related Press in April 2021 that he was once “a nasty lil’ rapper” however now could be pleased with lyrics he can think about rapping to God.
