Louisiana Misrepresentation During Booking Defense Attorney

Elizabeth B. Carpenter, Esq. – New Orleans Criminal Defense

Misrepresentation During Booking — La R.S. 14:133.2

Misrepresentation during booking is the misrepresentation of, or refusal by a person being booked to provide his name, age, sex, residence, or social security number to any law enforcement officer or official who is booking him pursuant to a lawful arrest, or the refusal of such person to submit to fingerprinting or photographing.  

Whoever commits the crime of misrepresentation during booking shall be imprisoned for not more than 6 months, provided that any such sentence shall be made to run concurrently with any other sentence.

This offense is a Misdemeanor!

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