First Degree Rape is punishable as a B1 felony. In 2009, North Carolina passed a mandatory minimum of 25 years for this crime.
First Degree Rape depends on the use of force or threat of force, or on the age difference between the victim and the defendant.
Note that just because there wasn’t full [...]
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North Carolina Criminal Lawyer: First Degree Rape
North Carolina Criminal Lawyer: Assault With Deadly Weapon With Intent to Kill or Inflicting Serious Injury
Someone who assaults – either does hit or touch or puts someone in imminent fear of being hit or touched – another person with the intent to kill or inflicting serious injury will be guilty of a Class E felony.
These crimes are usually abbreviated as AWDWISI or AWDWIK.
Here is the state:
§ 14-32. Felonious assault with [...]
North Carolina Criminal Lawyer: Malicious Maiming
Be careful if you ever try to put out the eye of another person. It’s a Class C felony in North Carolina, although it must be malicious. Accidental maimings don’t count under this statute.
Here’s the statute:
§ 14-30. Malicious maiming.
If any person shall, of malice aforethought, unlawfully cut out or disable the tongue or put [...]
North Carolina Criminal Lawyer:
It is a Class E felony if you, with malice aforethought, throw or cause to be thrown upon another person any acids or alkalis.
Here’s the statute:
§ 14-30.1. Malicious throwing of corrosive acid or alkali.
If any person shall, of malice aforethought, knowingly and willfully throw or cause to be thrown upon another person any corrosive acid [...]
North Carolina Criminal Lawyer: Assault Inflicting Serious Bodily Injury
A person who assaults another person and, in doing so, inflicts serious bodily injury will be guilty of a Class F felony. Note that the bodily injury can be mental, if it is severe. “Serious bodily injury” is different from and worse than “serious injury”. Serious bodily injury requires proof of some [...]