Nearly two years after a domestic violence allegations were made against Justin Roiland, the Rick & Morty co-creator has seen charges dismissed by the Orange County District Attorney’s office.
Charges that Roiland insists Wednesday were based “solely on the word of an embitter ex.” “We dismissed the charges today as a result of having insufficient evidence to prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt,” a spokesperson for O.C.
D.A. Todd Spitzer told Deadline of the semi-sealed matter first filed in May 2020. Having been pink slipped from most of his gigs over the charges, the Adult Swim series’ co-founder could have been sentenced to up to seven years behind bars and face some pretty big fines if found guilty.
That’s now old news, but for Roiland the drawn out matter is clearly far from closed. Taking to social media this afternoon with a tweet entitled “justice,” the voice of scientist Rick Sanchez said he was “deeply shaken by these lies”: justice pic.twitter.com/1q9M4GA6MV In a case that became public in late January, Roiland was charged in 2020 with one felony count of domestic battery with corporal injury and one felony count of false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud and/or deceit.
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