{
 "citation": "14:43",
 "heading": "Third degree rape",
 "doc_id": "78531",
 "source_url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=78531",
 "classification": "F",
 "enacted_year": "1978",
 "last_amended_year": "2015",
 "penalties": [
  {
   "subsection": "B",
   "text": "Whoever commits the crime of third degree rape shall be imprisoned at hard labor, without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence, for not more than twenty-five years.",
   "los_min": "0",
   "los_max": "25Y",
   "hard_labor": "AT",
   "benefits": "W/O BENEFITS (parole, probation, or suspension of sentence)",
   "death": false,
   "condition": ""
  }
 ],
 "referenced_statutes": [],
 "text": "RS 14:43\n\n\u00a743. Third degree rape\n\nA. Third degree rape is a rape committed when the anal, oral, or vaginal sexual\nintercourse is deemed to be without the lawful consent of a victim because it is committed\nunder any one or more of the following circumstances:\n\n(1) When the victim is incapable of resisting or of understanding the nature of the\nact by reason of a stupor or abnormal condition of mind produced by an intoxicating agent\nor any cause and the offender knew or should have known of the victim's incapacity.\n\n(2) When the victim, through unsoundness of mind, is temporarily or permanently\nincapable of understanding the nature of the act and the offender knew or should have known\nof the victim's incapacity.\n\n(3) When the victim submits under the belief that the person committing the act is\nsomeone known to the victim, other than the offender, and such belief is intentionally\ninduced by any artifice, pretense, or concealment practiced by the offender.\n\n(4) When the offender acts without the consent of the victim.\n\nB. Whoever commits the crime of third degree rape shall be imprisoned at hard\nlabor, without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence, for not more than\ntwenty-five years.\n\nC. For all purposes, \"simple rape\" and \"third degree rape\" mean the offense defined\nby the provisions of this Section and any reference to the crime of simple rape is the same\nas a reference to the crime of third degree rape. Any act in violation of the provisions of this\nSection committed on or after August 1, 2015, shall be referred to as \"third degree rape\".\n\nActs 1978, No. 239, \u00a71; Acts 1990, No. 722, \u00a71; Acts 1995, No. 946, \u00a72; Acts 1997,\nNo. 862, \u00a71; Acts 2001, No. 131, \u00a71; Acts 2001, No. 301, \u00a71; Acts 2003, No. 232, \u00a71; Acts\n2003, No. 759, \u00a71; Acts 2010, No. 359, \u00a71; Acts 2015, No. 184, \u00a71; Acts 2015, No. 256, \u00a71."
}