Gun Rights and Domestic Battery Convictions Louisiana During the 2014 legislative session Louisiana lawmakers created Louisiana Revised Statute 14:95.10, which creates gun restrictions and loss of gun rights (Second Amendment Rights) for anyone convicted of domestic abuse battery in the last 10 years. This includes misdemeanor convictions. The statute is also known as the Susan [...]
Louisiana Crimes Against the Infirm Cruelty to Persons with Infirmities In Louisiana the law for Cruelty to the Infirm can be found at La. R.S. 14:93.3. It is defined as the intentional or criminally negligent mistreatment or neglect by any person, including a caregiver, whereby unjustifiable pain, malnourishment, or suffering is caused to a [...]
What is Extortion in Louisiana? Extortion is the communication of threats to another with the intention thereby to obtain anything of value or any acquittance, advantage, or immunity of any description. Any one of the following kinds of threats shall be sufficient to constitute extortion: (1) A threat to do any unlawful injury to [...]
What are some violations of Ignition Interlock Devices Louisiana? No person who, as a condition of probation, is prohibited from operating a motor vehicle unless it is equipped with an ignition Interlock Device shall: (1) Operate, lease, or borrow a motor vehicle unless that vehicle is equipped with a functioning ignition interlock device. (2) Request or [...]
What is Battery? Battery is the intentional use of force or violence upon the person of another; or the intentional administration of a poison or other noxious liquid or substance to another. Simple Battery Simple battery is a battery committed without the consent of the victim. Whoever commits a simple battery shall be fined [...]
What is interfering with a law enforcement investigation in Louisiana? Interfering with a law enforcement investigation is the intentional interference or obstruction of a law enforcement officer conducting investigative work at the scene of a crime or the scene of an accident by refusing to move or leave the immediate scene of the crime [...]
What is a Federal Indictment? Our New Orleans Federal Criminal Defense Attorney explains indictment A federal indictment is a formal legal document that charges an individual with a federal felony. Federal misdemeanors do not require an indictment, therefore an individual may be charged with a federal misdemeanor via a Bill of Information. As [...]
Under Louisiana law, there are two types of false imprisonment: 1) Civil False Imprisonment, which is known as a tort (civil wrong) and 2) Criminal False Imprisonment, a criminal offense. People usually want to know if false imprisonment is a felony or a misdemeanor offense. The answer to this questions depends on the statute [...]
What is Resisting an Officer in Louisiana? Under Louisiana Law, Resisting an officer is the intentional interference with, opposition or resistance to, or obstruction of an individual acting in his official capacity and authorized by law to make a lawful arrest, lawful detention, or seizure of property or to serve any lawful process or [...]
Under Louisiana law, first degree vehicular negligent injuring is the inflicting of serious bodily injury upon the person of a human being when caused proximately or caused directly by an offender engaged in the operation of, or in actual physical control of, any motor vehicle, aircraft, watercraft, or other means of conveyance whenever any of [...]