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Rapper Mystikal Pleads Guilty to Third-Degree Rape Charge, Faces Decades in Prison

Mystikal pleaded guilty after prosecutors reduced charges and dropped nine others; he faces up to 20 years in prison with sentencing set for June 15.

  • During a March 17 hearing in Ascension Parish Court, Mystikal, stage name of the 55-year-old rapper Michael Tyler, pleaded guilty to third-degree rape after prosecutors downgraded the original first-degree charge.
  • Prosecutors agreed to a plea deal that dropped nine charges, including false imprisonment, simple robbery, battery domestic strangulation, and criminal damage to property, resolving original first-degree rape charges.
  • A sheriff's detective reported a medical exam found wounds consistent with rape, and investigators say the incident began as a financial dispute at Tyler's Prairieville home, with the victim allegedly choked, assaulted, forced to send money via CashApp, and hospitalized at a local hospital.
  • Tyler faces up to 20 years in prison, with sentencing scheduled for June 15 after his August 2022 arrest and custody status since then.
  • The rapper's criminal history includes a 2003 sexual battery conviction, six years in federal prison, and a 2017 rape-related charge dropped after posting a $3 million bond.
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