‘Rick and Morty’ Co-Creator Justin Roiland Facing Domestic Violence Charges - Rolling Stone

Justin Roiland, the co-creator and pb dependable histrion of the deed animated bid Rick and Morty, is facing charges of felony home unit stemming from a 2020 incident.

NBC News reports that Roiland was arrested and charged with 1 felony number of home artillery with corporal wounded and 1 felony number of mendacious imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud, and/or deceit pursuing the incident, which progressive a Jane Doe unfortunate helium was dating astatine the time.

Roiland pleaded not blameworthy to the 2 charges, and the transgression complaint, apprehension affidavit, and consequent ineligible hearings stay sealed. NBC News reported connected the transgression lawsuit against Roiland aft helium appeared Thursday astatine a pretrial proceeding successful Orange County, California. A proceedings day has not yet been set, but Roiland was ordered to be different pretrial proceeding connected April 27.

The incidental reportedly occurred successful Jan. 2020, and Roiland was charged successful May 2020. He was arrested and released connected a $50,000 enslaved successful August of that twelvemonth and was formally arraigned successful Oct. 2020. That aforesaid month, a protective bid was filed against Roiland prohibiting him from contacting oregon going wrong 100 feet of the Jane Doe victim; that protective bid remains successful effect until Oct. 2023.

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According to NBC News, Roiland’s attorneys told the tribunal that helium was offered a plea deal. News of the charges against Roiland comes conscionable days aft a caller animated bid he’s enforcement producing, Koala Man, debuted connected Hulu.

Roiland and Dan Harmon co-created Rick and Morty successful 2013, and successful the decennary that followed, the bid has reportedly go a billion-dollar franchise. In 2018, aft accusations of inappropriate behaviour were levied against Harmon during his clip moving connected Community, helium admitted to sexually harassing a erstwhile writer connected the show, Megan Ganz. The concern led to him being yet fired from the cult NBC sitcom.