Assault

The general advice regarding a self-defense claim is simple: You should not hit first. If the other person strikes you, then you can defend yourself. If you hit them first, you could find yourself facing assault charges because you instigated the fights.That said,...

You get arrested on assault charges after a fight. You claim it was just self-defense. After all, you know you have a right to protect yourself from harm.You do have that right, but making this claim does raise some interesting questions. These include:Did you use the...

Many states look at assault and battery as two related, but very different, legal charges. The main issue is that an assault can just be a threat of physical violence, while battery is the carrying out of that physical action.In Texas, they both fall under the general...

Texas takes a dim view of assault cases and is famously tough on those who commit assault. For that reason, anyone who is accused of assault in Texas should take it very seriously. There may be circumstances where a lawyer may be able to credibly argue against a...

In an assault case, multiple things need to be determined. Those include exactly what happened, what fault there was and what mitigating circumstances, if any, there were. All of those will undoubtedly be looked at in regard to a current Texas case in which a police...