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  2. Non-fatal offences against the person in English law - Wikipedia

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    Number of recorded crimes (2009–10). Categories approximate non-fatal offences against the person. Common to all crimes against the person is the infringement of the right to bodily integrity. It extends to the touching of clothing, for example, and where no physical harm actually results.

  3. Offence against the person - Wikipedia

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    Non-fatal non-sexual offences; They can be further analysed by division into: Assaults; Injuries; And it is then possible to consider degrees and aggravations, and distinguish between intentional actions (e.g., assault) and criminal negligence (e.g., criminal endangerment). Offences against the person are usually taken to comprise: Fatal ...

  4. Criminal law of the United States - Wikipedia

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    In American substantive law, it refers to the start-to-end period of a felony. In American procedural law, it refers to a former exception to the hearsay rule for statements made spontaneously or as part of an act. The English and Canadian version of res gestae is similar, but is still recognized as a traditional exception to the hearsay rule.

  5. FM considers call for non-fatal strangulation law - AOL

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    First Minister John Swinney says he is considering calls to make non-fatal strangulation (NFS) a standalone offence. The mother of an Aberdeen University student who took her own life after being ...

  6. Capital punishment for non-violent offenses - Wikipedia

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    Capital punishment for offenses is allowed by law in some countries. Such offenses include adultery, apostasy, blasphemy, corruption, drug trafficking, espionage, fraud, homosexuality and sodomy not involving force, perjury causing execution of an innocent person (which, however, may well be considered and even prosecutable as murder), prostitution, sorcery and witchcraft, theft, treason and ...

  7. List of 2020s American state and local politicians convicted ...

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    State Senator Annazette Collins (D) convicted of tax offences. (2024) [47] State Senator Sam McCann (R) pled guilty to wire fraud, money laundering and tax evasion for using more than $200,000 from his campaign fund for his own personal use. (2024) [48] [49] State Representative Luis Arroyo (D) convicted of fraud. (2022) [50]

  8. Strangulation in domestic violence - Wikipedia

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    In 2011, Strack and Gwinn created the Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention, the most comprehensive training program in the United States for the documentation, investigation, and prosecution of non and near-fatal strangulation assaults. [30]

  9. Battery (crime) - Wikipedia

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    For example: Simple battery may include any form of non-consensual harmful or insulting contact, regardless of the injury caused. Criminal battery requires intent to inflict an injury on another. Sexual battery may be defined as non-consensual touching of the intimate parts of another. At least in Florida, "Sexual battery means oral, anal, or ...