re: Cast puncher at LSU game has been arrested

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This is why I hate the system. He gets charged with aggravated battery, but there is zero chance that he actually pleads guilty to aggravated battery. This genius will not spend a day incarcerated after he bonds out. He'll just have to pay more money and his sentence will be reduced to simple battery. Everyone wins except for the future frat star who got clocked.

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Yes, his punishment will basically be being thoroughly aggravated by appearances and fines with no real time served. Likely a civil suit by the victim though to add something more to it.

Heck, I was researching the other day and even in a parish as "tough on crime" as St. Tammany I saw many instances of multiple battery, theft, drug, etc., convictions with little or no real time served, and for real trash too not some kind of connected types.