On January 15, 2004, Mystikal was sentenced to six years in state prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting his hairdresser. The rapper and two bodyguards forced the woman to have oral sex and accused her of stealing $ 80,000 in checks. In a plea bargain, the three pleaded guilty. Mystikal initially claimed the incident was consensual, but a videotape of the incident was later found at her home shortly after the charges were laid. Negotiations during the trial prevented the videotape from being recorded as evidence and Mystikal accepted the compromise proposed by the prosecution, avoiding the mandatory life sentence for sexual assault in Louisiana and expecting to receive a probation. However, the case took a turn when the judge viewed the videotape during sentencing, considered Mystikal's two previous arrests (for drug and weapons possession) and placed him in. pre-trial detention to immediately begin serving a six-year sentence. Mystikal's bodyguards Leland Ellis an...