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Mystikal Wants Gag Order In Rape Case: Report
Another legal setback has Mystikal by the reigns. The No Limit icon, real name Michael Tyler, has been in jail without bail since last July. Mystikal was arrested on charges related to an accusation of rape from a woman he’s reportedly known for upwards of two decades. According to the purported victim, she visited the rapper’s home to receive financial assistance for someone who needed money for an apartment. During the meeting, an alleged violent altercation occurred, and the woman claimed she was assaulted.
The Advocate reported the woman told authorities Mystikal prevented her from leaving his home by taking her car keys and mobile phone. She said he strangled and raped her, in addition to threatening to remove “bad spirits” from her with a pair of scissors. It’s also said that Mystikal believed the woman owed him money. The “Danger” hitmaker allegedly only let her leave his residence once she paid him $150 through a money app.
Mystikal Retains A New Attorney
Mystikal’s trial is set for the summer, and he’s hired a new attorney as the hearing looms. Recently, Tiffany Myles Crosby filed a motion to set a gag order in place due to the “inordinate amount of publicity.” The rapper’s case has elicited conversations about his past run-ins with the law, including several allegations of sexual assault. In 2020, Mystikal scored a victory after a previous rape charge was tossed out of court. However, in 2004, Mystikal was sentenced to six years for sexual battery against his hairstylist.
In this latest case, Crosby wants this gag order to further include “all potential witnesses and law enforcement officials who either will or might testify at the trial of this case or who have information” about the matter. The Advocate noted Mystikal’s previous legal team opted to be more hands-on with the press, while Crosby moves more privately.
Facing A Severe Sentence
In other court documents, it was alleged that Mystikal didn’t understand the previous motions filed on his behalf. Additionally, Mystikal has pleaded not guilty to the charges of rape and false imprisonment. If convicted, he could spend the remainder of his life in prison.
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Mystikal Requests For Gag Order In Rape Case
Mystikal and his new attorney Tiffany Myles Crosby filed for a gag order ahead of a rape trial in Ascension Parish, La. The rapper is facing a potential life sentence if convicted. Updated By: Kendall Parks (3/17/23 at 4:52 pm) The “Danger” artist and his legal attorney Tiffany Myles Crosby filed for a gag order […]
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Mystikal Accused Of Forcing Victim To Pray With Him Before Sexual Assault
Earlier this month, NOLA rap star Mystikal was formally charged with first degree rape for an incident that allegedly occurred in the rapper’s Ascension Parish home earlier this summer. Now, with more facts being discovered in the case, it has been revealed that the victim claims that the former No Limit soldier made her pray with him before sexually assaulting her.
The incident in which the alleged victim said began over Mystikal accusing her of taking $100, she claims he ripped her braids out of her hair and then took her car keys so she couldn’t leave his residence. After that, Mystikal, whose real name is Michael Tyler, is accused of pouring rubbing alcohol on the woman before forcing her tot pray and finally sexually assaulting her. She eventually escaped and was treated for her injuries at the Baton Rouge General Hospital.
Mystikal was arrested and booked on first-degree rape, simple robbery, felony domestic abuse battery by strangulation and two other counts. He is also facing an additional five drug counts along with the rape/robbery related charges. Mystikal remains in custody in the Ascension Parish Jail with no bond pending trial.
If convicted, Mystikal could face a life sentence behind bars. TheSourcecom will update this story as details develop.
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Mystikal Pleads Not Guilty To Rape And False Imprisonment
According to the Associated Press, Mystikal has pleaded not guilty to charges including rape and false imprisonment at his arraignment on Monday. Mystikal was arrested at the end of July for an incident in which he’s alleged to have held a woman against her will, sexually assaulting her and robbing her in an apparent drug-induced episode. Mystikal was denied bond as a result of the grisly details described by the alleged victim. However, Mystikal’s attorney maintains his innocence, telling Rolling Stone, “My client doesn’t even do drugs, so he has absolutely no idea what they were talking about.”
Mystikal has previously been accused of sexual assault two other times. In 2004, he pled guilty to sexually assaulting his hairstylist, serving a six-year prison sentenced and registering as a sex offender. In 2017, he was accused of sexual assault of a casino employee, but the charges were dropped after over a year when a grand jury was presented new evidence and declined to indict the rapper. In that case, he paid $3 million bond after nearly 18 months in jail.
Should his current case proceed to trial, Mystikal faces a potential life sentence for the first-degree rape charge, as well as domestic abuse, battery by strangulation, simple robbery, and miscellaneous possession of controlled substance charges.
Mystikal Pleads Not Guilty to Rape and Drug Charges from July 31 Arrest
Mystikal has entered no guilty to rape and false imprisonment charges connected to his July 31 arrest. The rapper is facing life in prison if he is convicted of his first-degree rape charge.
Arrest records state Mystikal became violent after accusing a woman of stealing $100 from him. The woman stated she found a “crystalline substance” while searching for the missing money. Later in the encounter, Mystikal asked if he could “feel” the woman. When she denied Mystikal allegedly forced her on a bed and raped her. A rape kit was performed on the woman.
The 51-year-old rapper, born Michael Tyler, is also charged with criminal damage to property, false imprisonment, domestic abuse battery by strangulation, simple robbery, possession of heroin, marijuana, methamphetamine and Xanax, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Speaking with ABC News, Mystikal’s attorney Joel Pearce stated that the rapper is innocent of all charges.
“My client doesn’t even do drugs, so he has absolutely no idea what they were talking about,” Pearce said in a telephone interview.
Mystikal is currently held without bond, but that may change at an Oct. 17 hearing. Prosecutors are believed to use his past guilty plea to sexual battery and extortion against him.
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“Danger” Rapper Mystikal Faces Life In Prison For Multiple Rape + Drug Charges
Among other charges, Mystikal has been indicted on a charge of first-degree rape over the alleged July attack at his Prairieville. He faces a mandatory life sentence if he is convicted at trial. Without Bail Lifetime registered sex offender Mystikal, named Michael Lawrence Tyler, has been indicted of first-degree rape over the alleged July attack […]
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Mystikal Facing Life in Prison Over First-Degree Rape Indictment
Mystikal Formally Charged With First Degree Rape, Could Face Life Sentence
According to several confirmed reports, NOLA rap legend Mystikal has formally been charged with first degree rape stemming from the alleged domestic assault and false imprisonment charges he caught back in July when he was arrested in his Ascension Parish, New Orleans residence.
Mystikal, whose given name is Michael Tyler, was officially indicted on first-degree rape, simple criminal damage to property, domestic abuse battery by strangulation, simple robbery, and false imprisonment. He currently awaits his trial in the Ascension Parish Jail with no bond.
The victim claims that the No Limit rapper choked her, took her car keys and cell phone then forcibly raping her after accusing her of stealing $100 from him before letting her leave.
The 51-year-old rapper could possibly face a life sentence if convicted.
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More Details Surface In Mystikal’s Rape Case, Now Faces Drug Charges
A new report has revealed that more details have emerged in Mystikal’s rape case, which shows that drugs were involved in the physical altercation with a former girlfriend and that the NOLA rap legend could now be facing drug charges.
During Mystikal’s bond hearing yesterday in which he was denied a conditional release, Sheriff’s Detective Garrett Keith testified that the incident that occurred on July 30, happened between Mystikal, whose real name is Michael Tyler, and a woman his lawyers claim to have been in a long-term relationship with him.
The report says that the woman went to Mysitkal’s house to talk about some past money owed to her, but thing went awry when the woman allegedly stole $100 from the 52-year-old rapper. While the woman was looking for cash, it is reported that she found a “crystalline substance.” Authorities confirmed that they found meth, Xanax, heroin, marijuana and drug paraphernalia in the rapper’s home.
The woman, who remains unidentified, alleges that Mystikal punched, choked, and pulled her hair out, then after feeling remorseful, the woman says that he splashed her with rubbing alcohol to cleanse her “bad spirits” while he prayed. She then alleges that Mystikal asked if he could “feel” on her, which led to him forcefully pushing her on the bed and allegedly raping her.
The woman claims that after the rape, Mystikal asked her to CashApp him $100, but ended up snatching her phone and sending himself $150 before asking her to leave. The woman says a friend took her to the hospital, where a rape kit was administered and medical staff found that her injuries were consistent with her rape claims.
Mystikal was arrested and booked on first-degree rape, simple robbery, felony domestic abuse battery by strangulation and two other counts. Now, he is also facing an additional five drug counts along with the rape/robbery related charges. Mystikal remains in custody in the Ascension Parish Jail with no bond pending trial.
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