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Timestamp: 2017-10-21 08:30:00
Document Index: 91371255

Matched Legal Cases: ['§61', '§61', '§61', '§61', '§61', '§61']

H. B. 2240(By Delegates Kurcaba, Fleischauer, Statler, Householder, Espinosa, Moffatt,
Summers, Blair, Hicks, Byrd and Upson)
A BILL to amend and reenact §61-2-9 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; and to amend and reenact §61-8B-1 and §61-8B-3 of said code, all relating to crimes against the person; providing that strangling is an aggravated felony offense; defining strangling; providing that a sexual offense by strangling is an aggravated felony offense; and providing criminal penalties.
That §61-2-9 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted; and that §61-8B-1 and §61-8B-3 of said code be amended and reenacted, all to read as follows:
(a) If any person maliciously shoot, stab, cut, strangle or wound any person, or by any means cause him or her bodily injury with intent to maim, disfigure, disable or kill, he or she, shall except where it is otherwise provided, be is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be punished by confinement in a state correctional facility not less than two nor more than ten years. If such the act be is done unlawfully, but not maliciously, with the intent aforesaid, the offender is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall either be imprisoned in a state correctional facility not less than one nor more than five years, or be confined in jail not exceeding twelve months and fined not exceeding $500.
(d) Any person convicted of a violation of subsection (b) or (c) of this section who has, in the ten years prior to said the conviction, been convicted of a violation of either subsection (b) or (c) of this section where the victim was a current or former spouse, current or former sexual or intimate partner, a person with whom the defendant has a child in common, a person with whom the defendant cohabits or has cohabited, a parent or guardian, the defendant’s child or ward or a member of the defendant’s household at the time of the offense or convicted of a violation of section twenty-eight of this article or has served a period of pretrial diversion for an alleged violation of subsection (b) or (c) of this section or section twenty-eight of this article when the victim has such a present or past relationship shall upon conviction be is subject to the penalties set forth in section twenty-eight of this article for a second, third or subsequent criminal act of domestic violence offense, as appropriate.
(e) As used in this section, "strangle" means intentionally, knowingly and recklessly impeding the normal breathing or circulation of the blood of a person by applying pressure to the throat or neck. regardless of whether that conduct results in any visible injury or whether there is any intent to kill or protractedly injure the victim.
(13) "Strangles" means intentionally, knowingly and recklessly impeding the normal breathing or circulation of the blood of a person by applying pressure to the throat or neck. regardless of whether that conduct results in any visible injury or whether there is any intent to kill or protractedly injure the victim.
(I) (A) Maliciously Strangles, as defined in section one, article eight-b, chapter sixty-one, or inflicts serious bodily injury upon anyone; or
(ii) (B) Employs a deadly weapon in the commission of the act; or