Rapper Mystikal Indicted on First-Degree Rape Charges, Could Face Life Sentence

variety.com:

Thania Garcia A Louisana jury has indicted New Orleans rapper Mystikal on charges of first-degree rape from an alleged sexual assault that is said to have occurred at his Lousiana home in late July.

Should the grand jury find him guilty, the 51-year-old will face a life sentence under state law. Mystikal, whose real name is Michael Lawrence Tyler, was also handed counts of criminal damage to property, false imprisonment, domestic abuse battery by strangulation, simple robbery and numerous drug possession accusations, according to the New Orleans Advocate.

In a warrant, sheriff’s deputies have accused Tyler of attacking a female in a violent encounter about finances on the night of July 30, during which he allegedly took her car keys and sexually assaulted her.

Earlier last month, Tyler was denied bond and fired his attorney in favor of another lawyer who had previously represented him in another sexual assault case in 2017 (he was met with charges of first-degree rape and second-degree kidnapping).