Obstructing Public Passages -- La. R.S. 14:100.1 No person shall wilfully obstruct the free, convenient and normal use of any public sidewalk, street, highway, bridge, alley, road, or other passageway, or the entrance, corridor or passage of any public building, structure, water craft or ferry, by impeding, hindering, stifling, retarding [...]
OPERATING A VEHICLE WHILE UNDER SUSPENSION FOR DWI -- La. R.S. 14:98.3 A. It is unlawful to operate a motor vehicle on a public highway where the operator's driving privileges have been suspended under the authority of R.S. 32:414(A)(1), (B)(1) or (2), (D)(1)(a), or 667. It shall not be a violation of [...]
What is criminal Obstruction of a Highway? The crime Obstruction of a Highway can be either a felony or misdemeanor in the state of Louisiana. The difference between the two offenses is that human life might be endangered in the felony offense, while there is not threat to human life in the misdemeanor offense. [...]
AGGRAVATED CRIMES AGAINST NATURE -- La.R.S. 14:89.1 Aggravated crime against nature is crime against nature committed under any one or more of the following circumstances: (1) When the victim resists the act to the utmost, but such resistance is overcome by force; (2) When the victim is prevented from resisting the act [...]
New Orleans Drug Crimes Defense Attorney Illegal Use of Controlled Dangerous Substances in the Presence of Persons Under Seventeen Years of Age -- La.R.S. 14: 91.13 It shall be unlawful for any person over the age of seventeen, while in the presence of any person under the age of seventeen and [...]
Crime against Nature By Solicitation La.R.S. 14:89.2 Crime against nature by solicitation is the solicitation by a human being of another with the intent to engage in any unnatural carnal copulation for compensation. Whoever violates the provisions of this Section, on a first conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $500 hundred [...]
How the DA Proves Issuance of Worthless Checks? Dishonored Checks is Prima Facie Evidence of Insufficient Funds in Bank -- La. R.S. 15:428 Whenever any check or draft shall have been drawn on any bank, whether such bank be in or out of this state, and payment shall have been refused, such check [...]
WHAT IS WORTHLESS CHECK LAW IN NEW ORLEANS? BY: ELIZABETH B. CARPENTER Issuing Worthless Checks -- La. R.S. 14.71 Issuing worthless checks is the issuing, in exchange for anything of value, whether the exchange is contemporaneous or not, with intent to defraud, of any check, draft, or order for the [...]
White Collar Crime Defense New Orleans Elizabeth B. Carpenter, Esq. -- New Orleans Criminal Defense Attorney Forgery Our firm has served many Louisiana Citizens who are facing white collar felony and misdemeanor charges in state and federal court. FORGERY La.R.S. 14:72 It shall be unlawful to forge, with intent to defraud, [...]
NEW ORLEANS WHITE COLLAR CRIMINAL DEFENSE BANK FRAUD ATTORNEY ATTORNEY ELIZABETH BAGERT CARPENTER -- Representing Clients in Baton Rouge, Orleans, Jefferson, St. John, St. Chalres, St. Tammany Parishes Bank Fraud -- La.R.S. 14:71.1 A. Whoever knowingly executes, or attempts to execute, a scheme or artifice to do any of the following shall be [...]