Run-Ins with the Law
After that, the ex-drummer dealt with serious clashes with the law and even more court cases, all the while reviving the Artimus Pyle Band. He pleaded guilty on charges of attempted capital battery, and “lewd and lascivious assault” in the presence of a child in Jacksonville in 1992. He got probation. 15 years later, Pyle was arrested for not properly registering as a sex offender after he changed his address.
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The case went to trial, but he was acquitted in 2009. More recently, he was involved in a proposed biopic called ‘Street Survivor: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash,’ which led to new legal issues. A district judge stopped the production permanently. Pyle was violating a 1987 consent order, which prohibited anyone from participating in a band-related project without at least three surviving members from Lynyrd Skynyrd’s pre-crash era.