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Weapon & AggravatedThumpingLawyers Edmonton | Pringle Chivers Sparks Teskey lawyers@pringlelaw.ca(780) 424-8866MenuHome Our Lawyers Alexander Pringle, Q.C. (1947-2015) Dan Chivers Michael D. Sparks Kent J. Teskey, Q.C. Lindsay Tate Nicole J. Stewart Evan McIntyre Curtis Steeves Laura Matalas Stephen Brophy Vita Wensel (Student at Law) Practice Areas Impaired Driving Drug Offences Offences of Assualt Domestic Violence SexualThumping& Sexual Offences Administrative Licence Suspensions & Appeals Internet, Computers & Technology Crime Theft, Fraud & Financial Crime Firearms & Weapons Offences Criminal Appeals Info Articles What You Need to Know if the Police Want to Speak with You Sentencing & Sentencing Options For Students Alexander D. 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In an thumping tuition the victim of an so-called offence is tabbed the complainant.  Consent from a complainant to be touched by the accused is not valid if permission was given while gravity is stuff applied, while under threat of the using of gravity to himself or flipside person, when given in fraudulent circumstances, or if gravity is stuff unromantic under the exercise of authority. Consent is not valid if it wasn’t given freely by the complainant, who is enlightened of all the risks of the gravity to be applied. For this reason, sports participants are not stuff assaulted if they are injured within the normalcourse of a game. But, injuries purposefully inflicted and intended to rationalization harm that are not a normal part of a sport may be considered an assault.  In the undertow of a consensual fight, where both parties stipulate to participate, consent is valid, unless bodily harm is intentionally unromantic causing a serious hurt or non-trivial injury. ASSAULT S. 266 CCC Section 266 is an offence for the simplest for of assault.  A requirement of thumping is that the person applying gravity intended to do so.  As a result, unwittingly bumping into someone will not make out an assault.  However, intentional touching plane as minor as touching someone’s arm without his consent is an assault. As mentioned above, an thumping can be made out by threatening flipside person to wield gravity to them and having the worthiness to act on those threats at the time. S. 266 is a hybrid offence, meaning that the Crown prosecutor has the worthiness to proceed by summary or by indictment.  If summary is elected the maximum penalty on conviction is a fine of no increasingly than $5000, a term of prison of no increasingly than 6 months or both.  If indictment is elected the maximum penalty for conviction is imprisonment of no increasingly than 5 years. Sentencing for conviction of thumping can include one of the following: a provisionary or wool discharge; a suspended sentence; a fine; a combination of fine and probation; a term of imprisonment; a combination of prison and probation; prison and a fine; an intermittent sentence; a fine, probation and intermittent sentence, or a provisionary sentence order.  A person receiving a conviction may moreover be subject to a weapon prohibition, a weapons forfeiture order, and may have to pay a victim fine surcharge. Some thumping charges can be resolved by other ways such as participation in the Alternative Measures Program (AMP) or through a common-law Peace Bond.  First-time offenders charged with relatively minor assaults may be tried to participate in AMP by making a donation to a soft-heartedness or completing some polity service hours.  If AMP is successfully completed the charges will be withdrawn and will not result in a criminal record. A common-law Peace Bond under s. 810 CCC allows the accused to enter into a recognizance (an undertaking with the court) to alimony the peace and be of good behaviour for a period of no increasingly than 12 months.  Upon inward the Peace Bond the charges are withdrawn.  However, if the accused breaches the Peace Bond, he will squatter new criminal charges for breaching a magistrate order. ASSAULT WITH A WEAPON OR ASSAULT CAUSING BODILY HARM S. 267* A person can be charged under s. 267 CCC if it is so-called that while committing an assault, the accused used a weapon or imitation weapon or caused bodily harm to the complainant. A weapon is anything that can be used, is designed to be used or intended to be used to rationalization death or injury to a person or to threaten or intimidate a person.  This definition can include any number of objects including firearms, imitation firearms and has been found to include dogs.  A person can be charged with thumping with a weapon if they threatened to use a weapon, but did not have one at the time. Bodily harm is specified as any injury that interferes with the health or repletion of a person and is increasingly than transient or trifling in nature.  ‘Transient or trifling in nature’ is taken to be a short value of time and very minimal injury.  To be convicted under this offence, it is not necessary that the accused have known that their deportment would rationalization bodily harm to the complainant. These two offences are hybrid offences.  If the Crown proceeds by summary conviction the maximum penalty is 18 months imprisonment or a maximum fine of $5000 or both. If the Crown proceeds by indictment the maximum term of imprisonment is 10 years.  Sentencing for conviction of either of these offences can include one of the following: a provisionary or wool discharge; a suspended sentence; a fine; a combination of fine and probation; a term of imprisonment; a combination of prison and probation; prison and a fine; an intermittent sentence; or a fine, probation and intermittent sentence.  Conviction under an indictment will result in a mandatory firearms prohibition and a mandatory weapon forfeiture order.  A summary conviction may include a discretionary firearms order.  A victim fine surcharge may wield to any conviction. AGGRAVATED ASSAULT S. 268* An aggravated thumping is single-minded when an accused wounds, maims, disfigures or endangers the life of the complainant.  This includes sexuality circumcision that is not completed by a licensed medical professional for the physical health of that person or to a woman who is over 18 years, consents and where there is no resulting bodily harm. To commit aggravated thumping a person does not have to intend to wound, maim or disfigure the complainant.  It need only be objectively foreseeable that the accused’s thumping on the complainant would rationalization bodily harm.  Wounding involves breaking the complainant’s skin.  Endangering the complainant’s life must involve very endangerment, not just the potential to put him in danger.  Consent to this offence is not a defence if injuries to the complainant are caused by the use of a weapon like a knife. This is an indictable offence and the maximum penalty is imprisonment of 14 years. Sentencing for conviction of thumping can include a suspended sentence; a fine; a combination of fine and probation; a term of imprisonment; a combination of prison and probation; prison and a fine; an intermittent sentence; or a fine, probation and intermittent sentence.  Conviction result in a mandatory firearms prohibition and a mandatory weapon forfeiture order.  A victim fine surcharge may wield to any conviction. *Thumpingwith a Weapon andThumpingCausing Bodily Harm under s. 267 where the Crown proceeds by indictment as well as Aggravated thumping (s. 268), are considered “serious personal injury offences”.  As such, provisionary sentence orders (house arrest) are not misogynist as a potential sentence for these offences. HIRING AN ASSAULT LAWYER Assault, aggravated assault, and thumping with a weapon are very serious criminal charges. Not only are the repercussions life waffly and long term, but if you are found guilty of committing thumping the effects can negatively impact your family, career, and future. If you are currently facing charges for assault, it is imperative that you rent a top thumping lawyer to protect your future. At Pringle Chivers Sparks Teskey our lawyers are recognized for their worthiness to build solid defenses, self-mastery thorough investigations, and provide expert advice. Call our office today for your self-ruling consultation; (780) 424-8866. 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