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How Injuries Affect a California Battery Conviction

By Neil Shous, Esq.

There are essentially three levels of injury that are addressed under California?s battery laws: minor injury, serious bodily injury, and great bodily injury. If you are convicted of Penal Code 242 PC battery?and you caused the alleged victim to suffer a minor or moderate injury (or even no injury at all)?you face a misdemeanor, punishable by up to six months in a county jail. If you are convicted of Penal Code 243(d) PC California?s ?battery causing serious bodily injury? law, you face up to four years in the California State Prison. Under Penal Code 243(d) PC California?s ?battery causing serious bodily injury? law, a ?serious bodily injury? is one that causes a serious impairment to one?s physical condition. There is no specific injury that necessarily qualifies as a serious bodily injury; it?s simply something that is determined on a case-by-case basis...continue to full post

Full post as published by California Criminal Defense Blog on July 08, 2010 (boomark / email).