What should the charge be?

[Hattie]

What is the name of your state? Wi

If I stab someone 22 times, what should the charge be? They will be able to prove that it was not self-defense. The victim needed a plastic surgeon, can't use his arm for 2-4 months due to muscle and nerve damage. What if I missed major organs, if he had me in a headlock so I couldn't stab his wife, and I could only stab his arms and back?

This is what happened to my son. The girl was beating his wife, for telling her to get a job instead of giving her the hand-out she was harrassing her for, my son pulled her and her 3 friends off his wife (all girls), the one pulled a knife, he put her in a headlock so she couldn't stab his wife, while he fought the men they were with with his other arm. The girl kept stabbing and he kept holding on so she couldn't get his wife, until police arrived.

 

[Happy Trails]

What is the name of your state? Wi

If I stab someone 22 times, what should the charge be? They will be able to prove that it was not self-defense. The victim needed a plastic surgeon, can't use his arm for 2-4 months due to muscle and nerve damage. What if I missed major organs, if he had me in a headlock so I couldn't stab his wife, and I could only stab his arms and back?

This is what happened to my son. The girl was beating his wife, for telling her to get a job instead of giving her the hand-out she was harrassing her for, my son pulled her and her 3 friends off his wife (all girls), the one pulled a knife, he put her in a headlock so she couldn't stab his wife, while he fought the men they were with with his other arm. The girl kept stabbing and he kept holding on so she couldn't get his wife, until police arrived.

Sounds like it would be assault with a deadly weapon. What is the district attorney doing about it?

 

[Hattie]

Not enough in my opinion. The charge is substantial battery for what she did to my son, battery for what she did to his wife and bail jumping, which I assume it's something to do with getting in trouble while out on bail for Possession of THC, drug trafficking and child neglect. She was arrested for those things but the DA didn't charge her for them until two weeks later - the day after she stabbed my son. Crime in their city has gotten terrible and is for the most part not reported in the media. I've talked to the mayor, who said he is sick of the police cleaining up the streets and the DA doing nothing to clean up the city.

 

[Happy Trails]

Not enough in my opinion. The charge is substantial battery for what she did to my son, battery for what she did to his wife and bail jumping, which I assume it's something to do with getting in trouble while out on bail for Possession of THC, drug trafficking and child neglect. She was arrested for those things but the DA didn't charge her for them until two weeks later - the day after she stabbed my son. Crime in their city has gotten terrible and is for the most part not reported in the media. I've talked to the mayor, who said he is sick of the police cleaining up the streets and the DA doing nothing to clean up the city.

Well it is a felony and hopefully this woman gets put away.

Substantial battery: Causes substantial bodily harm to another by an act done with intent to cause bodily harm (Class E felony) 940.19(2).

Substantial battery: Causes substantial bodily harm to another by an act done with intent to cause substantial bodily harm to that person or another (Class D felony) 940.19(3).

I don't know which one they charged her with, but the penalties for the above are as follows:

A class E felony carries possible penalty of a fine not to exceed $50,000 or imprisonment not to exceed 15 years or both.

A class D felony carries possible penalty of a fine not to exceed $100,000 or imprisonment not to exceed 25 years or both.

I hope she gets the max.

 

[Hattie]

Thank you so much for your help. I hope she gets the max too, and I hope they get around to charging the rest of the "gang" as well. The DA hasn't even talked to my kids yet and is famous for not being aggressive, for not being a deterrent to crime. I want to quit my job and lobby for justice on the steps of the DA office. I've asked the DA myself what they plan on doing, why the charge isn't more substantial. I was told they don't have the resources, and shouldn't even be taking the time to talk to me, making it clear they wouldn't waste their time on me again.