Sentence examples for crime of assault from inspiring English sources

For example, if you punch the mailman, the county prosecutor can charge you with the crime of assault and the mailman can sue you for the tort of battery.

A proposed law would make it "an offence to breach authority using mass active or passive resistance against security forces and to include as a crime of assault any threatening or intimidating behaviour", and simply blockading traffic or using social media to organise protest could land you in jail for two years.

This would widen the crime of assault considerably.

Berkman argued that he should only be sentenced for the attempt on Frick's life, that the other charges were elements of the main crime of assault with the intent to kill, but the judge overruled his objection.

Greater Manchester police's new policy recognises the specific crime of assaulting someone not for something that they've done, but for something that they are.

As I wrote last January, the central insight of the modern study of criminal violence is that all crime — even the horrific violent crimes of assault and rape — is at some level opportunistic.

The hung jury in Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial perfectly captures Americans' profound ambivalence about the crime of sexual assault.

In a 2006 Independent article she advised that "We should abolish the crime of rape and expand the assault law".

Judging by their reactions to rape trials, Americans are of two minds about the crime of sexual assault.

"We realize that the crime of sexual assault erodes the very fabric of our profession.

It also reflects a tension between the crime of sexual assault and the generally progressive social-justice movements criticizing harsh criminal penalties.