Rapper Mystikal handed 20-year prison term in third-degree rape case

Rapper Mystikal was sentenced to 20 years in a Louisiana prison after pleading guilty to third-degree rape; the plea deal reduced the charges from first-degree rape and other counts that could have carried life, and a bid to withdraw the plea was denied. The victim testified about the assault, and Mystikal’s legal history includes prior sex-offender and domestic abuse-related offenses. He has released little music in years, with Tarantula (2001) as his last original album.