Louisiana Revised Statutes 14:64.2 – Carjacking
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 14:64.2
- person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10
- Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
A. Carjacking is the intentional taking of a motor vehicle, as defined in La. Rev. Stat. 32:1(40), belonging to another person, in the presence of that person, or in the presence of a passenger, or any other person in lawful possession of the motor vehicle, by the use of force or intimidation.
B.(1) Except as provided in Paragraph (2) of this Subsection, whoever commits the crime of carjacking shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than five years nor more than twenty years, without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.
(2) Whoever commits the crime of carjacking when serious bodily injury results shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than twenty years nor more than thirty years, without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.
Acts 1993, No. 488, §1; Acts 2022, No. 131, §1; Acts 2024, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 18, §1.