Fights between two or more individuals can lead to a wide range of charges. Less severe incidents may be a Misdemeanor Assault in the Third Degree, which the courts define as a person knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal negligence causing bodily injury to another...
Each state's laws are slightly different, with varying definitions meaning the same thing. For example, menacing is a term used in Colorado for those who attempt to strike the fear of imminent serious bodily injury, which many states refer to as battery. It may start...
It’s not always immediately clear. That is a safely couched threshold answer to the above-posed headline query leading off today’s blog post. Indeed, a self-defense-or-assault determination can often be a challenging and difficult call to make for law enforcers and...
Let’s take a quick introductory look in today’s Shazam Kianpour & Associates blog post at a police/citizen interaction that gets somewhat volatile. We’ll examine that exchange from the perspective of both an arrested individual and a Colorado prosecutor. Imagine...
Over the last few years, accusations and charges of sexual assault have become more public and robustly reported in the media. Lately, states have been considering potential changes to their statute of limitations laws. A statute of limitations refers to the maximum...
Facts matter.Proven defense attorneys know that. They especially appreciate that parsing out "what really happened" concerning a client's criminal charge is critically important when a matter is inherently complex.As assault charges often are. Indeed, the realm of...
