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Timothy “Timaugustin” Augustine
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The Rick and Morty and Excessive on Life co-creator has been charged with felony home violence and false imprisonment.
Justin Roiland, head of Excessive on Life improvement studio Squanch Video games and co-creator of Rick and Morty, has been charged with home violence and false imprisonment. NBC Information studies that the incident occurred round January 19, 2020 in California, and concerned the assault of “an unnamed Jane Doe who was relationship Roiland on the time.”
The outlet reportedly has entry to a replica of the felony grievance filed towards Roiland, which describes that he has been charged with “one felony home assault with bodily hurt and one felony false imprisonment for risk, violence, fraud and / or dishonest.” Roiland was reportedly charged with these crimes in Could 2020. He was then arrested and subsequently launched on $50,00zero bail in August of that yr.
In October 2020, he was arraigned and pleaded not responsible to each felony costs. Within the years since, there have been greater than a dozen courtroom hearings with one other scheduled for this week, a pre-trial listening to that Roiland should attend. In October 2020, a three-year protecting order was filed towards Roiland, which prohibited the actor and author from coming inside 100 ft of the nameless Jane Doe, or from harassing, threatening, and surveilling her. Different courtroom information associated to Roiland’s case are at present sealed, so this data solely comes from a replica of the doc in NBC Information’ possession.
As an actor, author, and producer, Roiland is at present concerned in various tasks within the tv and online game business. He co-created Rick and Morty with Dan Harmon, and the sequence has been renewed for a seventh season as a part of Grownup Swim’s 100-episode manufacturing deal for the present. Roiland additionally voices varied characters on the present, together with his two principal characters. He additionally co-created the sci-fi animated sequence Photo voltaic Opposites for Hulu, and govt produced the streamer’s current debut, Koala Man.
Players will acknowledge Roiland as one of many many voices in 2022’s Excessive on Life, which was developed by his sport studio Squanch Video games. The quirky first-person shooter was massively profitable in 2022, turning into the best-selling sport on Steam and the most-played sport on Xbox Sport Go in its launch week.