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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Last night
Message-ID: <461@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Jun-85 14:22:29 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 10 14:22:29 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 14-Jun-85 05:01:59 EDT
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Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Organization: The Cat Factory
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Summary: 

In article <819@mtgzz.UUCP> dls@mtgzz.UUCP (d.l.skran) writes:
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>Legally, assult involves touching another person.
>If you don't touch them, you haven't assulted them.
>
>Yelling at someone is a disorderly persons offense.
>If repeated, it becomes harrassment.

Sorry,  not  true.  Assault  is  _attempting_  to  harm  someone.  Touching
another  person  is  battery.  Pointing  a gun at someone is assault with a
deadly weapon even if no shots are fired.  If a person waves a  gun  around
in  the  presence  of  a  crowd  they can be charged with a separate deadly
weapon assault count for every person in range.

Verbal assault is certainly not as serious a crime as armed assault, but it
can do real psychological damage.  In theory, the perpetrator would be open
to civil as well as legal charges.
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