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When Defending Yourself Gets You Charged with Minnesota Assault

Category: Assault | Assault With A Deadly Weapon

When you feel the instinct to defend yourself, most of the time your responses are gut reactions. Moreover, you have an innate right to protect yourself and those around you when needed.

Hear this, though: just because your actions made sense to you at the time, doesn’t always mean law enforcement will be on your side.

In fact, once the smoke clears, you may find the tables have turned and wind up in a Minnesota court facing

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Can School Fights Lead to MN Assault Charges? Absolutely

Published By: Chris Keyser

Category: Assault

Whether you went to a public school or a private school, you were probably witness to some roughhousing on the playground back in the day.

Well, incidents of fighting at school have not gone away. In fact, last year a handful of teenagers were actually arrested as fights broke out in schools across the state.

What are fights like these days?

The staff at Southwest High School in Minneapolis know the threat of school fighting and

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How Definitions of Bodily Injury Impact Minnesota Assault Charges

Published By: Chris Keyser

Category: Assault | Violent Crimes

If you are charged with assault in Minnesota, it’s helpful to understand how bodily harm is defined in various degrees. Below, we’re going to break down the law and penalties for you, then let you know how to fight back against your charges.

Understanding Bodily Harm in Minnesota Assault Laws

The Minnesota Statutes break assault into five different degrees, which define different levels of bodily harm, among other things.

Assault in the Fifth Degree

Minnesota Statute 609.224

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Battling Assault Charges in Minnesota: The Strategies Lawyers Use

Published By: Chris Keyser

Category: Assault

Most people think of assault as physically hurting someone, but in Minnesota, that is only one way to commit the offense – you can also be charged for acting in a way that makes someone afraid that you’re about to hurt them. Of course, those are two very different things. How does Minnesota law account for this? By creating multiple degrees of assault.

There are actually five different degrees of assault in our state, each with unique

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Is There a Difference between Assault and Battery in Minnesota?

Published By: Chris Keyser

Category: Assault | Domestic Assault

Many states have distinct charges for both assault and battery. The definitions vary from state to state, but generally speaking one charge involves the threat of violence (usually, but not always, assault), and one charge involves actual physical violence occurring (usually, but not always, battery).

In Minnesota, there is no such clear distinction between these two acts. If you threaten someone, it’s assault. If you physically harm them, that’s also assault.

However, there are quite a few

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6 Different Types of Assault Charges in Minnesota

Published By: Chris Keyser

Category: Assault

Getting charged with a crime is hard enough to figure out. There are a lot of complicated procedures that come with heading to trial or facing sentencing. To understand the process that is ahead, you first have to understand what you have been charged with.

But in a situation that involves an alleged assault, this can be particularly difficult. Why? Because Minnesota law breaks the act of assault down in to six different potential charges. To help you better

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What Constitutes an Assault Charge in Minnesota?

Published By: Chris Keyser

Category: Assault

Regardless of where you are, an assault charge is serious business. But here in Minnesota, you could be facing some of the harshest penalties in the country if you’re charged with assault.

We take assault so seriously that we have five different degrees of assault, each with their own conditions and penalties. If you or someone you love has been charged, you need to understand what the various degrees mean and how you could be impacted.

Assault in

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