Extortion Defense — Louisiana
Louisiana Extortion Criminal Cases Extortion in the State of Louisiana involves any attempt to gain anything of value by the use of threats. There are two prongs to an Extortion exchange: 1) A threat must be made and 2) It must have been made with the intent of gaining something, either something of value or some sort of preferential treatment. It differs from robbery in that a robbery involves a person’s money or possessions being taken by force. In Extortion the victim is willingly giving an item of value to someone in exchange for not doing something harmful or [...]