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2. Battery (crime) - Wikipedia

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   Battery is a criminal offense involving unlawful physical contact, distinct from assault, which is the act of creating reasonable fear or apprehension of such contact. Battery is a specific common law offense, although the term is used more generally to refer to any unlawful offensive physical contact with another person. Battery is defined by ...

3. Assault - Wikipedia

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   The terms "assault" and "common assault" often encompass the separate offence of battery, even in statutory settings such as section 40(3)(a) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33). A common assault is an assault that lacks any of the aggravating features which Parliament has deemed serious enough to deserve a higher penalty.

4. Assault and battery - Wikipedia

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   Assault and battery is the combination of two violent crimes: assault (harm or the threat of harm) and battery (physical violence). This legal distinction exists only in jurisdictions that distinguish assault as threatened violence rather than actual violence.

5. Appeals court tosses prior conviction of Dejan Belnavis, man ...

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   Belnavis faced two counts of assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon in connection with the June 21, 2021, altercation at the Walmart ithat involved five men fighting two against three ...

6. Man who hit, killed college student visiting Myrtle Beach won ...

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   Sauro’s charges were reduced from hit and run involved in accident with death to first-degree assault and battery, a felony, according to the Public Index. He was sentenced July 10, 2024, to 10 ...

7. Man previously accused of 2022 Evansville killing arrested ...

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   Thomas also has a lengthy history of assault and battery cases in Vanderburgh County dating back to at least 2017, a review of court records shows. ... Thomas was arrested and charged with three ...

8. Criminal law of the United States - Wikipedia

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   Battery is aggravated when using a weapon or dangerous object, when it results in disfigurement or serious physical injury. Assault and battery are classified as aggravated when directed towards a person with special status such as a law enforcement officer or elderly person. Assault becomes aggravated given the intention to murder or rape.

9. A Timeline of Chris Brown’s Legal Troubles and Accusations ...

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   Brown was arrested for felony assault and spent 36 hours in jail after he refused to take a picture with a man before subsequently breaking the individual's nose.