Louisiana rapper Mystikal receives a 20 year sentence, after pleading guilty to raping a woman in 2022.
The original first degree rape charge that carried a mandatory life sentence under Louisiana law was dropped. During sentencing, the victim emotionally pleaded for the judge to give Mystikal the maximum sentence allowed under the plea agreement. She told the court that the rapper punched her, choked her, pulled out her braids, and forcibly raped her at his home in Prairieville, Louisiana.
According to AP News, Mystikal, real name Michael Tyler, responded to the victim saying, “If I did that to you, I deserve the max sentence.”
Tyler attempted to withdraw his plea stating he didn’t understand what it meant when he was admitting guilt…yea…we’re probably thinking the same thing.
This was not Mystikal’s first serious criminal case. In 2003, he pleaded guilty to sexual battery and extortion involving his hairstylist and served approximately six years in prison. He is also a registered sex offender as a result of that conviction.