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What’s the difference between assault and battery in Louisiana?
Assault involves threatening or attempting to cause harm, placing someone in reasonable fear of injury. Battery involves actual physical contact. Both can be simple or aggravated, with aggravated charges carrying much heavier penalties.
Assault involves threatening or attempting to cause harm, placing someone in reasonable fear of injury. Battery involves actual physical contact. Both can be simple or aggravated, with aggravated charges carrying much heavier penalties.
Answer by David Joseph Rozas
David Rozas is an experienced criminal and immigration lawyer and one of the founding partners of Rozas & Rozas Law Firm. He has been with the firm since 2004, joining his brother, Greg in practice. David concentrates his law practice on criminal defense and immigration.
