When people in New York are brought up on assault and battery charges, their lawyers could potentially use self-defense, protection of another person or property, or consent as the defenses in their cases. Assault and battery occurs when one individual threatens to and then carries out violence or force against another person in an unlawful manner.
On Jan. 16, a 39-year-old Brooklyn man was arraigned on numerous charges in connection with a violent home invasion and robbery in April. Prosecutors claim that the victims, a couple from Queens, were left with serious, lasting injuries from the incident.
New York residents might benefit from learning about the different classifications of homicide. In certain cases, homicide may be considered a legal act. Otherwise, these actions may be treated as murder by manslaughter. Killing in defense of another person or as a means of self-defense may be described as a justified homicide. Whether or not the act is justified depends on whether state laws permit lethal force for acts of self-defense.
A Cheektowaga man was indicted by a grand jury on a charge of second degree murder, it has been reported. The 54-year-old man was arraigned on Dec. 16 for an incident that allegedly occurred in October in Cheektowaga. According to Cheektowaga Police Department officials, the alleged victim was the accused’s tenant. Witnesses reported that, following an argument, the landlord shot his tenant, also a 54-year-old man, in the abdomen while both were standing in the tenant’s driveway. The tenant was transported to Erie County Medical Center by emergency personnel on the night of the incident, where he reportedly died from his injuries.
Several people in New York were arrested by local police and federal agents for their alleged involvement with a Yonkers street gang known as GMF. Two accused gang members are still wanted, but several others were arrested by the FBI’s SWAT team and Westchester Violent Crimes Task Force on the morning of Dec. 10. The people arrested were scheduled to appear before a federal judge in White Plains later on that same afternoon.
A man is facing charges of criminal possession of a weapon and second-degree murder in connection with the stabbing death of his girlfriend on Nov. 8. Authorities discovered a 68-year-old woman with multiple stab wounds at a Queens apartment when they responded to an emergency phone call. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency personnel. Following an initial investigation, the woman’s boyfriend was taken into police custody.
An individual’s genetic makeup dictates many things. From the way we look to the medical conditions or diseases we are born with or later develop, much is predetermined by an individual’s genes. The role that genes play in influencing behavior is an area of great interest to scientists and sociologists who aim to discover the role genes play in influencing behavior.
From a fist fight between two patrons at a bar to an altercation outside a home that ends in one individual pulling out a gun and shooting and injuring another, criminal charges related to assault and battery are likely to follow. When it comes to prosecuting and defending assault and battery cases, much depends on an individual’s intent and justification and the resulting injuries to others.
Professional athletes get paid, and handsomely at that, for essentially being the physically best at what they do. For an NFL football player, these skills include very physical and often violent acts like hitting and tackling. While NFL players routinely see their careers end over shattered bones and dislocated shoulders, today the careers of at least two well-known players may be over as both face criminal charges related to acts of domestic violence.
In 1989, a 28-year-old successful white business woman fought for her life in a New York City hospital. As news reports surfaced of the brutal rape and beating she survived while out for a jog in New York’s famed Central Park, five teenagers were arrested and interrogated by police officials.