Macon Georgia battery criminal law lawyers
Criminal battery in Jones County Georgia
Simple criminal battery is usually prosecuted as a misdemeanor. Second or subsequent crimes or the particular nature of the crime may warrant more severe penalties. For instance, in few states, a second or third offense against the same person is a felony. In cases of domestic violence, many states disallow battery charges to be dropped against the defendant, even at the request of the victim, because of the potential for repeat or escalated harm.
Most sexual offences include elements of battery as they are essentially non-consensual contacts, and few states actually have penal codes listing the specific crime of “sexual battery.”
Aggravated battery is a simple battery with an additional element of an aggravating factor. This is typically the addition of a weapon whether used or threatened with, and is usually a felony offense. Examples of other aggravated batteries are those committed against protected persons; those in which the victim suffers serious injury; or those occurring in a public transit vehicle or station, or school zone, or other protected areas. These are all aggravating factors that will transform simple misdemeanor batteries to the level of felonies.
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