jakemccoy
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^ ...It's interesting you put buy a shotgun third. I get it.
Anyway, this is Lousiana with some of the strangest laws in the country. Applying logic won't always get you there. The law in that strange state is what I want to know.
Louisiana Aggravated Criminal Damage to Property
LA R.S. 14:55
Aggravated criminal damage to property is the intentional damaging of any structure, watercraft, or movable, wherein it is foreseeable that human life might be endangered, by any means other than fire or explosion.
Whoever commits the crime of aggravated criminal damage to property shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars, imprisoned with or without hard labor for not less than one nor more than fifteen years, or both.
That's exactly what I thought. Generally a prosecutor will file for the toughest charge that could conceivably be applied, and then be eager to plead it down to a lesser charge and a slap on the wrist. They're even more eager to do that if the person in question has been a model citizen up to that point, since they know the person is more likely to try and cut things short, plead out to a year or two of probation, and feel lucky they didn't end up in jail. Meanwhile, the prosecutor gets to talk about how tough on crime they are.
And justice gets trampled.
It is possible that the guy had previous run ins with the law, but I'd think that then they would have charged him with something worse than property damage.
\According to Pitre when he yelled at the two men to stop one of them pointed what looked like a pistol at him. At that point Pitre says he went inside and came out shooting with an AK-47 assault rifle.
According to witnesses Pitre chased the two suspects up the street, firing all the way. The suspects somehow managed to escape unhurt. Several of Pitre's stray rounds found their way into some nearby apartments. Fortunately no one was hit.
He should have let them have the 2 rims. By the time he pays for a lawyer, not to mention the cost of all that ammo he wasted shooting up the neighborhood, he could have bought some new wheels.
Pitre says" as I opened the door I heard what sounded like five or six shots. That's when I fell to the floor and my rifle accidentally went off and hit another apartment."