"Scott en Aztlán" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 08:19:48 GMT, "jaybird" > wrote:
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>>"Scott en Aztlán" > wrote in message
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>>> On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 05:08:12 GMT, "jaybird" > wrote:
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>>>>> Yeah - I keep making the mistake of expecting the law to follow the
>>>>> tenets of common sense.
>>>>>
>>>>> According to http://www.dictionary.com "assault" means
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. An unlawful threat or attempt to do bodily injury to another.
>>>>> 2. The act or an instance of unlawfully threatening or attempting
>>>>> to injure another.
>>>>>
>>>>> The bum's attack on the OP clearly meets this definition. No doubt
>>>>> you're going to tell me that Texas law defines "assault" differently.
>>>>
>>>>I see this mistake in your long list of them for this case... Rather
>>>>than
>>>>getting your definition from www.dictionary.com you need to get it from
>>>>the
>>>>legal definition as it applies to the law in question.
>>>
>>> Why? You're the first person to behave as though Texas law applies to
>>> the entire universe; why is it suddenly invalid for me to choose my
>>> own convenient definitions?
>>
>>Leave the Texas part of it aside since we've already established that most
>>states' laws are pretty similar on what meets the elements of the offense
>>of
>>Assault. To properly apply the word to law, you must first start with a
>>legal definition.
>
> Which is what Motorhead Lawyer did. He agreed with me that the offense
> described in the story does, in fact, meet the legal defintion for
> assault.
>
> What's really interesting here is how YOU keep arguing the point.

Well I know I can't change your mind, although your blind faith is quite
strange. I would've thought you'd do some research on your own. Does it
constitute a physical assault?... maybe an implied assault?... or an assault
by threat? Is he talking about a criminal definition?... maybe civil?...
Anyway, this thread has become tiresome and I'll just leave you with the
information that you couldn't get a criminal Assault charge filed, or really
even reported in most states based on what the OP presented. Good day.

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