Justin Roiland, who created the animated sequence Rick and Morty and supplies the voices of the 2 title characters, is awaiting trial on fees of felony home violence in opposition to a former girlfriend.

legal grievance obtained on Thursday by The Related Press, from prosecutors in Orange County, California, charged Roiland, 42, with corporal harm and false imprisonment by menace, fraud, violence or deceit in opposition to the lady, who he was dwelling with on the time.

The girl was not recognized in courtroom paperwork.

Roiland has pleaded not responsible.

The incident occurred in January of 2020 and Roiland was charged in Could of that yr, however the fees apparently went unnoticed by media retailers till NBC Information reported them on Thursday, when a pre-trial listening to was held within the case.

Emails looking for remark from Roiland’s lawyer and representatives for Cartoon Community, which airs Rick and Morty within the US, weren’t instantly returned. Roiland is ready to return to courtroom in April. A trial date has not been set.

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 night-time programming block, and has been renewed for a seventh.