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hifiguy

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7. True, that.

Reply to Kalidurga (Reply #5)

Sat Sep 13, 2014, 01:21 PM

Sep 2014

There was a prominent criminal defense lawyer on one of the local sports talk shows yesterday - the host is, if not a hard lefty, miles to the left of the vast majority of the cro-magnons on most sports talk radio - and the lawyer couldn't figure out the Texas statute at all. His primary question was how you can "negligently assault" someone, which is the essence of the charge. It is a very strange statute. By definition, assault is an intentional action and not caused by "negligence". I am an attorney and I am equally stumped.

That said, if he faces a TX jury, he will probably walk.

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