Legal Question in Criminal Law in Louisiana

armed robbery

My brother did 5 armed robberies with a toy gun and got five 5yr sentences that runs consecutively instead of concurrently. My brother said because of the Napolean laws


Asked on 5/12/09, 7:31 pm

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Nick Pizzolatto, Jr. Pizzolatto Law Office

Re: armed robbery

It has nothing to do with the napoleonic code. It has to do with his committing 5 armed robberies! He could have gotten 99 years times 5 = 495 years...so he got a big break. Doing it with a firearm would have mandated another 25 years to that.....so he got another break by not getting 520 years.....

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Answered on 5/13/09, 9:11 am


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