Assault Crimes & Other Violent Crimes

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Assault Penalties:

• Class C Misdemeanor Assault: When a person threatens harm but no injury occurs or makes physical contact in a provocative or offensive manner

• Class B Misdemeanor Assault: When the assault occurs in the context of sports when a non-participant of a sport assaults a participant (e.g., player, coach, sports official, referee) during the sporting event, or in retaliation for the participant’s performance.

• Class A Misdemeanor Assault: When the assault is against an elderly or disabled person – regardless if physical harm was involved or against any person if physical harm is present

• Third-Degree Felony Assault: When the assaulted person is a public servant, security officer, emergency services personnel, or government official or contractor.

• Second-Degree Felony Assault: When the assaulted person is an on-duty peace officer or Judge. 

Aggravated Assault

In some cases, the alleged actions are serious enough to warrant a much more serious charge than simple assault.  Aggravated Assault is essentially simple assault that also causes “serious bodily injury” to another person, including a spouse; or it can be committed while using or exhibiting a “deadly weapon” during the commission of the assault.

“Serious Bodily Injury” is defined as bodily injury that creates a substantial risk of death or that causes death, serious permanent disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ

“Deadly Weapon” can be a firearm (loaded or unloaded), vehicle, knife, baseball bat, hammer, glass bottle, hammer, and many more.  For determination of whether an object or thing is a “deadly weapon,” under the law of Texas, is whether the object or thing in question had the capacity to cause death or serious bodily injury.

Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon is a second-degree felony, which may result in confinement in a Texas Department of Criminal Justice – Institutional Division for a minimum of 2 years and a maximum of 20 years along with a fine up to $10,000.

An aggravated assault is a second-degree felony except in the following circumstances in which it is a first-degree felony:

• The offender uses a deadly weapon in committing the assault and causes serious bodily injury to the victim and the victim is a family or household member, or someone the offender is or has dated or had an intimate relationship with, qualifying the offense as a domestic assault

• The aggravated assault is committed by a public servant, such as a state worker or city counselor acting in his official capacity

• The victim is a person the offender knows to be a public servant engaged in the performance of his duties or the assault is committed in retaliation for the public servant performing his duties

• The aggravated assault is committed in retaliation against a witness, informant or a person who reported a crime

• The victim is a person the offender knows to be a security officer engaged in performing his duties, or

• The offender shoots a firearm from a motor vehicle at a house, building or motor vehicle with reckless disregard for whether the house, building or motor vehicle is occupied and causes serious bodily injury to the victim

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