Nationwide — Rapper Mystikal, who’s from New Orleans, Louisiana, will stay in jail whereas he waits for trial after a choose rejected his request for bond. He faces a number of expenses tied to a 2022 case, and a conviction might imply life in jail.
Mystikal, whose actual title is Michael Tyler, is charged with first-degree rape, home abuse battery, strangulation, and false imprisonment. He has pleaded not responsible. The fees stem from an incident that police investigated in 2022.
In response to KLFY, Decide Steven Tureau made the choice throughout a court docket listening to on Tuesday. Mystikal’s mom and his enterprise supervisor instructed the court docket they have been prepared to look at over him if he was launched. Regardless of that supply, the choose selected to maintain him in custody.
The court docket additionally set a brand new trial date for March 30, 2026. Officers count on the trial to run for at the very least per week. Mystikal has one other listening to scheduled for January 21, 2026.
He beforehand served jail time for a 2003 sexual battery conviction. In 2016, he confronted kidnapping and sexual assault expenses, however that case was later dropped.
If he’s discovered responsible within the present case, he might obtain a life sentence.
