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“Misdemeanor assault is going to be pretty minor injuries. So, the the most common charge we see when it comes to assault in the third degree, a class one misdemeanor, is knowingly or recklessly causing bodily injury to another. Bodily injury in Colorado can be anything from a scrape, a cut to somebody just saying, "I felt pain." That would be an example would be if you punch somebody in the face and they get a scratch. That's going to be assault in the third degree.”
“Assault in the second degree, there's a variety of different levels in that. For instance, assault can be with intent to cause bodily injury. You cause serious bodily injury. So, take the prior example of punching somebody in the face. You end up breaking a a nose. That's going to be a secondderee assault. That escalates from a class one misdemeanor to a class 4 felony. And uh potential DOC sentence on that is going to be the the max level uh penalty.”
“Another example of seconddegree assault would be using a deadly weapon and causing bodily injury to somebody. So if you and Colorado allows for quite a wide range of things to be considered deadly weapons. For instance, a pipe, something that we wouldn't necessarily think as a deadly weapon could be a deadly weapon. Obviously, there's knives, pistols, things along those lines. So if it's using a deadly weapon to in a resulting in a bodily injury, then you you are potentially going to be facing a crime of seconddegree assault.”
“That escalates from a class one misdemeanor to a class 4 felony. And uh potential DOC sentence on that is going to be the the max level uh penalty.”
“Colorado allows for quite a wide range of things to be considered deadly weapons. For instance, a pipe, something that we wouldn't necessarily think as a deadly weapon could be a deadly weapon.”
“Bodily injury in Colorado can be anything from a scrape, a cut to somebody just saying, "I felt pain."”