Assault

Empathizing with the Accuser at a Civil Protection Order Hearing

November 24, 2011 Assault

“Oh,” says the witness to the judge.  “There is one other thing I would like to say.” The witness is the father of the respondent in a civil protection order hearing.  He is an old man and he is angry.  The judge has given him tremendous latitude in testifying about every complaint he has ever [...]

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“A Surprisingly Good Day in Court” for Cioca v. Rumsfeld

November 21, 2011 Assault

Over at the Daily Beast, Jessie Ellison describes three signs that the military might finally be forced to  “confront its rape epidemic.”  First, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced on Friday that he will issue “very direct guidance” in the coming months to reduce sexual assault in the military.  Second, a new bill introduced by [...]

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Good Samaritans — Not! — Captured on Video

November 6, 2011 Assault

It’s rare that we get a video this good, the prosecutor tells me as he hands me the DVD.  Usually with the metro cameras, he says, they are on the other side of the platform and you can barely make them out.  In this case, the whole thing happened right in front of the camera. [...]

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Why I Hate D.C.’s “Threats to do Bodily Harm” Statute

October 2, 2011 Assault

Your client is 19 years old.  She weighs 105 pounds and stands under five feet tall. Having been arrested for a minor offense, she sits handcuffed in a room surrounded by police officers. Her eyebrow is bleeding from a cut she suffered from being thrown up against a chain link fence. All the police officers [...]

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U-Va’s Proposed New Rules on Sexual Misconduct

May 7, 2011 Assault

“Sexual misconduct has no place in the university’s community of trust.” So says Patricia Lampkin of the University of Virginia (U-Va) in describing the university’s proposed new rules on sexual misconduct. Having come under harsh criticism nationwide for having failed to prevent the murder of 22-year-old Yeardley Love at the hands of another U-Va student, [...]

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Press Coverage of Military Rape Case

February 17, 2011 Assault

My wife’s military rape case has received lots of attention in the media since it was filed in federal court on Tuesday.  Most recently, Susan appeared this morning on the Diane Rehm show on NPR.  In addition to the ones I posted earlier, here are some additional links: New York Times CNN Piers Morgan Tonight [...]

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Albert Haynesworth Charged With Sexual Assault

February 17, 2011 Assault

Albert Haynesworth is making things far too easy for those of us who love to dislike him. My beef with Haynesworth has been that he accepted a $100 million contract to play for the Washington Redskins and then decided he didn’t want to play. He didn’t like the new defensive scheme instituted by new coach [...]

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Washington Redskins’ Brandon Banks Stabbed

February 13, 2011 Assault

Brandon Banks, the Redskins’ electrifying punt- and kick-returner from last season, suffered a minor wound yesterday after he was stabbed outside a D.C. nightclub.  According to the Washington Post, Banks was trying to break up a fight between two friends when one of the men – Jason David Shorter – opened a folding knife and [...]

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Albert Haynesworth Charged With Assault

February 5, 2011 Assault

I have written about Albert Haynesworth and his troubles with the Washington Redskins. And I have written about simple assault in Virginia. Now I write about Albert Haynesworth AND simple assault after Haynesworth was charged with the offense following a road rage incident Wednesday in Reston. According to the Washington Post, the driver of another [...]

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On Spit Balls as Missiles and Pests As Criminals

February 2, 2011 Assault

When I was in high school many, many years ago, using a plastic straw to shoot spit balls at the back of another kid’s head would have drawn, at the very most, a stern rebuke from the teacher. In today’s hyper-sensitive society, the straw would be a weapon, the spit-ball a “projectile,” the head a [...]

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