Mystikal has spent almost three years in jail after being arrested for rape. He was virtually one step nearer to figuring out his destiny within the case yesterday, however a scheduled court docket date didn’t go as deliberate.
Life in Jail Looms Over Mystikal for Rape Accusation
Mystikal was set to face a decide in Ascension Parish court docket in Louisiana on Monday (March 17) to enter a plea in his rape case. Sadly, the rapper didn’t make his solution to court docket as a result of the decide delayed his case, based on KLFY Information 10 in Lafayette, La. There isn’t any cause offered for the delay or whether or not both facet requested further time to arrange.
The brand new court docket date was pushed again to Might 19, when Mystikal, 54, is predicted to present a plea. Nonetheless, it is unclear if he’ll provide a responsible or not responsible plea. The New Orleans rhymer has maintained his innocence since his arrest in 2022, and beforehand pleaded not responsible to prices of first-degree rape, home abuse battery by strangulation and false imprisonment.
XXL has reached out to Mystikal’s lawyer for remark.
Rape allegations have plagued Mystikal’s profession for many years. The newest accusation stems from an incident on July 30, 2022, after an alleged sufferer recognized him to police because the suspect who raped her. Mystikal was accused of assaulting the sufferer following a dispute over cash on the rapper’s Prairieville, La. residence. She claims Mystikal thought she took $100 from him, which triggered him to reportedly punch, choke and pull out her hair. He then allegedly stopped her from leaving the house by taking her keys and cellphone.
Whereas looking for the lacking cash, she discovered a “crystalline substance” substance in his dresser. Cops later found Xanax, heroin and marijuana at Mystikal’s residence throughout a search.
She alleged that Mystikal compelled her onto a mattress and raped her after praying along with her and splashing her with rubbing alcohol to cleanse her “unhealthy spirits.” The sufferer was reportedly in a long-term relationship with the previous No Restrict artist.
Previous to this, he was sentenced to 6 years in jail after pleading responsible to sexual battery and extortion in 2003, in connection to an incident along with his then-hair stylist. Mystikal grew to become a lifetime registered intercourse offender because of that case, and was launched in 2010. Two years later, he returned to jail for violating his probation.
One other rape accusation put Mystikal again behind bars in 2017, when he was charged with the crime once more in Louisiana and indicted for each rape and kidnapping. For 2 years he sat in jail, then was launched on a $3 million bond. The case was ultimately dropped attributable to lack of proof.
If Mystikal goes to trial and is convicted of first-degree rape associated to the 2022 case he is at present in jail for, he faces a compulsory life sentence. Two months from now, he is scheduled to go in entrance of a decide to place one other plea on paper. Will he enter a responsible plea to keep away from life in jail or proceed to say he did not do the crime? If he takes the chance to go in entrance of a jury, he is playing on whether or not they’ll consider him or the sufferer, who shared grim particulars of what he allegedly did to her when recounting the rape.