re: Deputies arrest 4 in LSU student Madison Brooks case

It's actually First Degree rape. Hillar Moore is under-billing the crime.

  A. First degree rape is a rape committed upon a person sixty-five years of age or older or where the anal, oral, or vaginal sexual intercourse is deemed to be without lawful consent of the victim because it is committed under any one or more of the following circumstances:

            (1) When the victim resists the act to the utmost, but whose resistance is overcome by force.

            (2) When the victim is prevented from resisting the act by threats of great and immediate bodily harm, accompanied by apparent power of execution.

            (3) When the victim is prevented from resisting the act because the offender is armed with a dangerous weapon.

            (4) When the victim is under the age of thirteen years. Lack of knowledge of the victim's age shall not be a defense.

            (5) When two or more offenders participated in the act.

            (6) When the victim is prevented from resisting the act because the victim suffers from a physical or mental infirmity preventing such resistance.

            B. For purposes of Paragraph (5), "participate" shall mean:

            (1) Commit the act of rape.

            (2) Physically assist in the commission of such act.

The driver 28 year old is also on the hook for first degree as he assisted.

Then there's also a manslaughter charge that should be brought against the four:

R.S. 14:31

     (3) When the offender commits or attempts to commit any crime of violence as defined by R.S. 14:2(B), which is part of a continuous sequence of events resulting in the death of a human being where it was foreseeable that the offender's conduct during the commission of the crime could result in death or great bodily harm to a human being, even if the offender has no intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm. For purposes of this Paragraph, it shall be immaterial whether or not the person who performed the direct act resulting in the death was acting in concert with the offender.

Why isn't D.A. Moore doing his job and charging these criminals with the crimes they have committed?

Right now, they've only been charged with 3rd degree rape (anal/vaginal), no murder charges.

The name and addresses of the defendants are pubic record at the Clerk of Court as are the pending charges.