Justin Roiland, the co-creator and lead voice actor of the hit animated collection Rick and Morty, is going through fees of felony home violence stemming from a 2020 incident.
NBC Information experiences that Roiland was arrested and charged with one felony rely of home battery with corporal harm and one felony rely of false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud, and/or deceit following the incident, which concerned a Jane Doe sufferer he was relationship on the time.
Roiland pleaded not responsible to the 2 fees, and the legal criticism, arrest affidavit, and subsequent authorized hearings stay sealed. NBC Information reported on the legal case towards Roiland after he appeared Thursday at a pretrial listening to in Orange County, California. A trial date has not but been set, however Roiland was ordered to attend one other pretrial listening to on April 27.
The incident reportedly occurred in Jan. 2020, and Roiland was charged in Could 2020. He was arrested and launched on a $50,000 bond in August of that 12 months and was formally arraigned in Oct. 2020. That very same month, a protecting order was filed towards Roiland prohibiting him from contacting or going inside 100 toes of the Jane Doe sufferer; that protecting order stays in impact till Oct. 2023.
In response to NBC Information, Roiland’s attorneys instructed the court docket that he was provided a plea deal. Information of the costs towards Roiland comes simply days after a brand new animated collection he’s govt producing, Koala Man, debuted on Hulu.
Roiland and Dan Harmon co-created Rick and Morty in 2013, and within the decade that adopted, the collection has reportedly develop into a billion-dollar franchise. In 2018, after accusations of inappropriate conduct had been levied towards Harmon throughout his time engaged on Group, he admitted to sexually harassing a former author on the present, Megan Ganz. The scenario led to him being finally fired from the cult NBC sitcom.
