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One of the most common charges prosecuted in the State of New York is the crime of assault. The law provides for at least 32 different ways that assault can be charged from simple misdemeanor assault in the third-degree to first-degree felony assault with a deadly weapon causing serious physical injury. This crime of violence comes with serious criminal penalties whether it is prosecuted as a felony or a misdemeanor.
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The term “physical injury” means either the impairment of physical condition or substantial pain. See Penal Law § 10.00(9); See People v. Chiddick, 8 NY3d 445 (2007).
The term “intent” is defined as a “conscious objective or purpose.” The standard injury instructions explain the term intent in the following manner: “[A] person acts with intent to cause physical injury to another when that person's conscious objective or purpose is to cause physical injury to another.” See Penal Law § 15.05(1).
The laws in New York provide that a person also acts recklessly when he or she creates such a risk but is unaware of that risk solely by reason of his or her voluntary intoxication.
The laws of the State of New York for assault do not require that the person who is injured be the same person who was intended to be injured. Therefore, if you have the intent to hit John, but he jumps out of the way and you end up hitting Steve instead, then the prosecutor can argue that under a transferred intent theory that you are still guilty of assault.
Criminal Negligence with a Deadly Weapon.
The defendant did so with the intent to cause physical injury to the alleged victim.
See Penal Law § 15.05(3); People v. Boutin, 75 NY2d 692, 696 (1990).
Subsection 3 relates to physical injury with criminal negligence of a weapon. The charge of assault in the third degree can also be charged when it is alleged that the person, with criminal negligence, causes physical injury to another person by means of a deadly weapon or other dangerous instrument.
Instead, in this context, a person acts with “criminal negligence” with respect to physical injury by means of a deadly weapon or other dangerous instrument "when that person engages in conduct which creates or contributes to a substantial and unjustifiable risk that physical injury to another person by means of a deadly weapon [or dangerous instrument] will occur, and when he or she fails to perceive that risk, and when that risk is of such nature and degree that failure to perceive it constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would observe in the situation." See Penal Law § 15.05(4); People v. Boutin, 75 NY2d 692, 696 (1990).
Reckless assault charges against a child are charged under Penal Law Section 120.01 for reckless assault of a child by a child care provider, which is a class E felony. The laws of the State of New York provide that a person can be charged with Reckless Assault of a Child by a Child Day Care Provider when it is alleged that the defendant is a child day care provider or an employee thereof, and he or she recklessly causes serious physical injury to a child, who is under the care of such provider or employee, and who is less than eleven (11) years of age.
The term “child day care provider” is defined as an “individual, association, corporation, partnership, institution or agency whose activities include providing child day care, or operating a home or facility where child day care is provided.” See Penal Law §10.10(19) and Social Services Law §390(1)(b).
The term “serious physical injury” is defined as “impairment of a person's physical condition which creates a substantial risk of death, or which causes death or serious and protracted disfigurement, protracted impairment of health or protracted loss or impairment of the function of a bodily organ.” Penal Law §10.00(10).
See Penal Law §15.05(3); People v Boutin, 75 N.Y.2d 692 (1996).
Assault in the second degree is a class D felony under Penal Law 120.05(1). For second-degree felony assault charges, the term "serious physical injury" means impairment of a person's physical condition which creates a substantial risk of death or which causes death or serious and protracted disfigurement, protracted impairment of health or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily organ. See Penal Law § 10.00(10).
Under Subsection 1, a person can be charged with Assault in the Second Degree when it is alleged that he or she acted with the intent to cause serious physical injury to another person and caused such injury to that person or to a third person.
Under Subsection 2, a person can be charged with Assault in the Second Degree when, with intent to cause physical injury to another person, he or she causes such injury to that person or to a third person by means of a deadly weapon or a dangerous instrument.
with intent to prevent an employee of a local social services district directly involved in providing public assistance and care from performing his or her job, he or she causes physical injury to such employee.
Under Subsection 4, a person can be accused of Assault in the Second Degree when it is alleged that the person recklessly causes serious physical injury to another person by means of a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument.
Under Subsection 5, a person can be accused of Assault in the Second Degree when it is alleged that, for a purpose other than lawful medical or therapeutic treatment, that person intentionally causes stupor, unconsciousness, or other physical impairment or injury to another by administering to such other person, without his or her consent, a drug, substance, or preparation capable of producing such stupor, unconsciousness, or other physical impairment or injury.
whether such person(s) had reached a place of temporary safety before the physical injury was caused.
Under Subsection 7, a person can be charged with Assault in the Second Degree when it is alleged that the person, having been charged with a crime and while confined in a correctional facility pursuant to such charge, acted with intent to cause physical injury to another person, and he or she causes such injury to that person or to a third person applies to inmate causing physical injury.
Under Subsection 8, a person is can be charged with Assault in the Second Degree when the defendant, being eighteen (18) years old or more and with intent to cause physical injury to a person less than eleven (11) years old, he or she recklessly causes serious physical injury to that person.
Under Subsection 9, a person can be charged with Assault in the Second Degree when it is alleged that he or she, being eighteen (18) years old or more and with intent to cause physical injury to a person less than seven (7) years old, he or she causes such injury to such person.
Under Subsection 10a, a person can be charged with Assault in the Second Degree when it is alleged that at a place the person knows or reasonably should know, is on school grounds, and with intent to cause physical injury, he or she causes such injury to an employee of a school or public school district.
Under Subsection 10b, a person can be accused of Assault in the Second Degree when it is alleged that a person, acting at a place the person knows or reasonably should know, is on school grounds and with intent to cause physical injury, he or she, not being a student of such school or public school district, causes physical injury to another, and such other person is a student of such school who is attending or presents for educational purposes.
Under Subsection 12, a person can be accused of Assault in the Second Degree when it is alleged that, with intent to cause physical injury to a person who is sixty-five years of age or older, he or she causes such injury to such person, and the actor is more than ten years younger than such person.
Penal Law Section 120.06 and 120.07 related to gang assault.
Penal Law Section 120.08 enhance the penalties for assault on a police officer, peace officer, fireman or emergency medical services professional.
Penal Law Section 120.09 enhance the penalties for assault on a judge.
felony assault with serious physical injury under subjection 4.
Section 120.11 makes it a crime to commit an aggravated assault on a police or peace officer.
Section 120.12 prohibits aggravated assault upon a person less than 11 years old.
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