Houston Aggravated Assault Attorney

With over 800,000 assaults being reported in the U.S. every year, the intentional offensive contact with a person has become quite common. There can be a felonious assault which is causing physical injury by the use force (weapon) or violence (serious injury caused by use of hands, fists, or feet.) If the physical contact resulted in medical treatment then it would be considered a type of felonious assault called assault and battery. Due to assaults you can get penalties ranging from imprisonment to probation, fines, anger management classes, and loss of right to posses weapons. Your penalty will be determined based on offender’s crime history, if he is currently on probation, and many other variables.

Assaults can be very hard to determine and can have varying factors. They sometimes might even be caused due to self-defense or defending another person or property. Contact Carroll and Becker and we will be able to provide early preparation and complete an investigation so that we may provide you with aggressive defense to eliminate or minimize you assault crime case.

The littlest assault can quickly change to an aggravated assault when circumstances are at there worst. When there are previous felonies on your record the penalties for an aggravated assault can become much more severe. No matter how great the penalties are, it is extremely important to call an  of the law office of Carroll and Becker. With years of criminal law experience, we represent people living in and around the city of Houston. We know aggravated assault can occur in a few different ways including, an infliction of a severe injury to another. When a deadly weapon or dangerous weapon is used to intentionally place someone in imminent fear of serious injury, you are looking at aggravated assault. When a person causes a serious injury to another while driving drunk, you are looking at aggravated assault. Assaulting a police officer, teacher, prosecutor, health care provider, or prison guard can all be charged as aggravated assault.

Then serious criminal penalties occur. Our certified Criminal Law Specialist has challenged the criminal charges filed against people for violent crimes many times over. We want you to know if convicted of any assault resulting in a serious physical injury you face mandatory probation and the likelihood of imprisonment. If the assault implicated a deadly weapon or dangerous tool, you face a mandatory bare minimum five-year jail sentence. If DUI was involved in the accident, people face a sentence anywhere from five to fifteen years imprisonment. The Law Offices of Carroll and Beckerwill find any defense available to defend you against unsubstantiated criminal charges.