Overview
- Court reporters say LaBeouf appeared in New Orleans court and accepted a plea that brings the criminal prosecution from the February French Quarter altercation to a close.
- Local reporting states he pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor counts of simple battery and will be placed on probation and ordered to take anger-management classes.
- A second report says prosecutors accepted a reduced plea for disturbing the peace by appearing intoxicated in public and dropped the original battery counts.
- Police and video from the February incident show a chaotic confrontation outside a Royal Street bar that left LaBeouf shirtless and being treated by paramedics and alleged victims saying he struck two people.
- Prosecutors declined to pursue hate-crime enhancements in the case and, according to earlier court filings, the matter had included bond and court-ordered substance-treatment and testing conditions before the plea resolved the criminal charges.