Well, that’s one impending legal battle Kanye West can strike off his list. The rapper won’t face criminal charges after allegedly battering a man outside a Los Angeles hotel in January, TMZ reported Tuesday. A spokesperson for Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer said in a statement that their office had conducted “a thorough and careful review of all the evidence” and had determined there was “no reasonable likelihood of conviction.” In a statement to The Daily Beast, West’s attorney, Michael Goldstein, said that the alleged victim was not a fan, as was widely reported in the wake of the Jan. 13 incident. “Rather, he was an autograph broker who followed my client to 3 locations over a very short period of time...” Goldstein said, adding that the man’s “stalking-like pursuit crossed the line of acceptable behavior.” The alleged victim was identified earlier this year as Justin Poplawski, who is listed as the owner of All-Star Signatures LLC on a popular autograph-collectors database.
