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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 22', '§ 6', '§ 22', '§ 71', '§ 71', '§ 71']

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Assault and Family Violence Laws in Texas
Assault and family violence laws in Texas are taken extremely serious by judges, prosecutors and police. If you have been arrested or charged with assault or assault family violence, you need to immediately obtain legal representation. If you are facing assault or domestic violence charges in Austin or Travis County, please contact Austin Domestic Violence Lawyer Kevin Bennett by calling (512) 476-4626. You may also contact the Law Office of Kevin Bennett through email.
§ 22.01. Assault, Texas Penal Code
(2) a person whose relationship to or association with the defendant is described by Section 71.0021(b), 71.003, or 71.005, Family Code, if it is shown on the trial of the offense that the defendant has been previously convicted of an offense under this chapter, Chapter 19, or Section 20.03, 20.04, or 21.11 against a person whose relationship to or association with the defendant is described by Section 71.0021(b), 71.003, or 71.005, Family Code;
(B) in retaliation for or on account of the person’s or employee’s performance of a service within the scope of the contract; or
(4) a person the actor knows is a security officer while the officer is performing a duty as a security officer.
(1), (2) Repealed by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., ch. 788, § 6.
(f) For the purposes of Subsection (b)(2):
(1) a defendant has been previously convicted of an offense listed in Subsection (b)(2) committed against a person whose relationship to or association with the defendant is described by Section 71.0021(b), 71.003, or 71.005, Family Code, if the defendant was adjudged guilty of the offense or entered a plea of guilty or nolo contendere in return for a grant of deferred adjudication, regardless of whether the sentence for the offense was ever imposed or whether the sentence was probated and the defendant was subsequently discharged from community supervision; and
(2) a conviction under the laws of another state for an offense containing elements that are substantially similar to the elements of an offense listed in Subsection (b)(2) is a conviction of an offense listed in Subsection (b)(2).
§ 22.02. Aggravated Assault, Texas Penal Code
§ 71.0021. Dating Violence, Texas Family Code
(a) “Dating violence” means an act by an individual that is against another individual with whom that person has or has had a dating relationship and that is intended to result in physical harm, bodily injury, assault, or sexual assault or that is a threat that reasonably places the individual in fear of imminent physical harm, bodily injury, assault, or sexual assault, but does not include defensive measures to protect oneself.
§ 71.003. Family, Texas Family Code
§ 71.005. Household, Texas Family Code
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