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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.legal
Subject: Re: charges and convictions
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Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 18:16:50 EDT
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Summary: Battery is a lesser charge


In article <505@h-sc1.UUCP> desjardins@h-sc1.UUCP (marie desjardins) writes:
>
>Why would battery not be a lesser charge than rape?  Rape seems awfully
>serious to me (yes, so does battery), especially for repeat offenders
>(certainly more comparable to, say, a murder charge than battery).  Or
>do I misunderstand the legal meaning of the term "battery"?
>

I think if anything you overestimate the seriousness of battery.  As I
understand it, any violence directed against another person is battery.
E.g., punching someone.  A crime yes, but not necessarily a very serious
crime.