Two other people indicted on other charges arising from the case are still being held at the correctional center, according to jail records.
“It’s not uncommon that bondsmen come here and is not approved to bond people out and have to go downtown and get all the right paperwork filed with the clerk’s office,” Farris said. Rick Farris with the Caddo Correctional Center where Tyler was held said such delays can happen. Jail officials said Tyler’s release was delayed somewhat this week because the bonding agency he used was not initially approved to bond Tyler out, and then there were issues with completing the paperwork. His lawyers told KTBS-TV they believe they have enough evidence, including video footage, to show Tyler did not commit the alleged crimes. “I mean this never happened,” Pearce added. He said that “ultimately whenever the district attorney begins looking at what the facts of the case actually are it’s ultimately gonna be a dismissal.”
His attorney, Joel Pearce, said Tyler’s trial is scheduled for May and that he looks forward to clearing the rapper’s name. This thing here, it could be a tomb where you’re sitting in there deteriorating or it could be a cocoon where you can come out of that thing, I don’t want to say a butterfly, but you could be a hero when you come out of there.” “Sometimes you have to open up the circumstances and it’ll be a walk of faith. “It’s a test of faith, you know, walk of faith,” Tyler said after being released. His 2000 album “Let’s Get Ready” went multiplatinum. He is best known for his 2000 hit, “Shake (it Fast),” which peaked at No. Tyler was accused of a sexual assault at a Shreveport casino in October 2016 and was indicted on charges of first-degree rape and second-degree kidnapping. Tyler, 48, of New Orleans, surrendered in August 2017 when he learned there was a warrant out for his arrest.
The artist, whose real name is Michael Tyler, was freed Wednesday from a Shreveport area correctional complex, local news outlets report. – Mystikal, a Louisiana rapper who had been in custody for nearly a year and a half on a rape charge, has been released on a $3 million bond. Watch Video: Rapper Mystikal freed on $3M bond after being held on rape charge
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