Orange County prosecutors on Wednesday dropped home violence costs towards Justin Roiland, who created the Cartoon Community animated collection “Rick and Morty” and offered the voices of the present’s two title characters.
Orange County district lawyer’s spokeswoman Kimberly Edds mentioned the 2 felony counts involving a former girlfriend have been dropped “as a result of an absence of adequate proof past an inexpensive doubt.”
Roiland responded to the dismissal on Twitter.
“I've at all times recognized that these claims have been false — and I by no means had any doubt that today would come,” he mentioned. “I’m grateful that this case has been dismissed however, on the similar time, I’m nonetheless deeply shaken by the horrible lies that have been reported about me throughout this course of.”
He added that he's “disenchanted that so many individuals have been so fast to guage with out realizing the details, based mostly solely on the phrase of a bitter ex making an attempt to bypass due course of and have me ‘canceled.’”
Roiland, 43, had been awaiting trial on costs of corporal damage and false imprisonment by menace, fraud, violence or deceit towards the lady, who he was residing with on the time. She was not recognized in court docket paperwork.
The fees dated to Might 2020, however they apparently went unnoticed by media retailers till NBC Information reported on them in January of this yr.
Roiland and Dan Harmon created the animated sci-fi sitcom a couple of mad scientist and his grandson, each voiced by Roiland. It has aired for six seasons on Cartoon Community as a part of its Grownup Swim nighttime programming block, and it has been renewed for a seventh.
Grownup Swim and Cartoon Community lower ties with him when the costs have been reported and mentioned his roles could be recast. twentieth TV Animation and Hulu Originals, which produce two different animated collection Roiland labored on, did the identical.
The businesses declined touch upon Wednesday.
In his tweet, Roiland mentioned he's “decided to maneuver ahead and focus each on my artistic initiatives and restoring my good identify.”