Baton Rouge Manslaughter Defense Lawyers

Manslaughter in Louisiana is a very serious charge with the potential of forty years imprisonment. The proper manslaughter defense requires an aggressive attack on the prosecutor's witnesses and possible evidence. Mr. Barkemeyer provides experience and knowledge necessary to fight this charge.

Manslaughter Defined

(1) A homicide which would be murder under either Article 30 (first degree murder) or Article 30.1 (second degree murder), but the offense is committed in sudden passion or heat of blood immediately caused by provocation sufficient to deprive an average person of his self-control and cool reflection. Provocation shall not reduce a homicide to manslaughter if the jury finds that the offender's blood had actually cooled, or that an average person's blood would have cooled, at the time the offense was committed; or

(2) A homicide committed, without any intent to cause death or great bodily harm.

(a) When the offender is engaged in the perpetration or attempted perpetration of any felony not enumerated in Article 30 or 30.1, or of any intentional misdemeanor directly affecting the person; or

(b) When the offender is resisting lawful arrest by means, or in a manner, not inherently dangerous, and the circumstances are such that the killing would not be murder under Article 30 or 30.1.

Contact Baton Rouge Manslaughter Defense Lawyers at Carl Barkemeyer Law Office.