That number goes up slightly if the assault involves a weapon, and improves to nearly 70percentt for aggravated sexual assault, the most serious of the possible charges.
Half of these assaults involved a weapon, five resulted in injuries, and two involved alcohol.
Wouldn't a court be especially cautious in considering evidence involving a weapon in such circumstances?
There were 248 felony assaults — typically, those involving a weapon or a serious injury — and 1,308 misdemeanor assaults reported last year, according to the numbers released on Tuesday.
Between last August and May, Mr. Kurbanov provided computer software and money to members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, an American-designated terrorist group, to help carry out "an offense involving a weapon of mass destruction," the authorities said.
In crimes that involve a weapon, Dr. Loftus and other scientists have found that witnesses will fixate on the gun barrel or knife blade but will fail to notice other details as clearly.
The Danish integration minister, Birthe Ronn Hornbech, is now contemplating the introduction of a new set of laws that will in effect mean that all foreigners caught committing a crime involving a weapon will be expelled from the country.
Not all police agencies participate in the FBI's count, which is limited to deaths involving a weapon, for example, while the CDC misses cases, among others, in which medical examiners certify a homicide but fail to note police involvement.
The language of the policy also means that he could impose harsher penalties for a first offense in cases that involve "a prior incident before joining the NFL, or violence involving a weapon, choking, repeated striking, or when the act is committed against a pregnant woman or in the presence of a child".
Especially not one that doesn't involve a weapon more piercing than self-deprecating sass.
