Strangulation

Right Law Group's guide explains: "In Colorado, various actions fall under the broad category of “assault,” ranging from unwanted physical contact to severe offenses such as first-degree assault, second-degree assault,, and vehicular assault."

Alexis explains: "It can involve strangulation. It can involve striking a peace officer. It can involve causing serious bodily injury to another. It can involve using a deadly weapon to injure somebody."

Alexis explains: "now looking at the opposite end of the spectrum we have our third degree assault which is typically charged we can see harassment charge there's another level of assault that can be charged and unfortunately we see this charge quite frequently especially here in colorado and that is a second degree assault also known as a strangulation now with those types of charges they're they're a little bit more nuanced so we dig into that more in a later video but for our sake today just knowing that there are different levels of assault harassment and other charges that can be charged as domestic violence there's any number of ways that you can be charged with an act of domestic violence but those assaults and harassments are the most commonly seen charges in domestic violence cases"

Alexis explains: "Now, in Colorado, our Colorado legislature made strangulation an actual class four felony, because they deemed this to be a much more serious crime and something that caused a higher risk of harm or death to another person."

Alexis explains: "Secondary assault is kind of a broad term used and then broken up into certain subsections in Colorado. It's a class 4 felony generally carrying with it between two and six years in the Department of Corrections followed by a period of mandatory parole if you are sentenced to DOC. It can involve strangulation. It can involve striking a peace officer. It can involve causing serious bodily injury to another. It can involve using a deadly weapon to injure somebody. So there's quite a few different ways that that's broken up in Colorado and can be any number of different oper options."

Alexis explains: "So for strangulation to be actually charged under the Criminal Code, there has to be that underlying assault. But then the act that is done has to be an act. Sometimes people say choking, but it's actually strangling putting your hands around another person or causing something to cut off airflow to another person."

Alexis explains: "that is a second degree assault also known as a strangulation"