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• buttnugget@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Assault as opposed to battery.

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• Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well, yes. Sexual assault is a catch all.

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  • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    dictionary entry

    > # assault > noun
    > a violent attack

    legal definition

    In common law > An attempt with force or violence to do a corporal injury to another; may consist of any act tending to such corporal injury, accompanied with such circumstances as denotes at the time an intention, coupled with present ability, of using actual violence against the person. or “reasonable apprehension of the immediate application of force to the victim”.

    No.

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    • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Assault” varies in definition by jurisdiction and circumstance. Pulling a conversation about sexual assault into the weeds is, frankly, a strange move, but go on with your bait.

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      • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Definitions predominant involve violence, physical force, or reasonable & immediate expectation of it. Not big on distorting ideas with loaded language: the bait was theirs.

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