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Originally Posted by RFlush

Your defense lawyer sucked!

I was in a similar situation in my youthful high-school days, being naive and stupid. This bigger guy was picking on my friend in the halls of school and I stepped in and punched him in the face on the cheek breaking his nose and lower eye with just one punch. The guy charged me with assault causing bodily harm, but I was able to get out of everything due to the fact that although I did punch him once, I did not continue to hit him even when I had the opportunity to do so, thus it would not be considered bodily harm. I was also dropped of charges because it was proven by all the witnesses that the bigger guy was about to punch my friend and I had only stepped in to help my friend who was about to get hit. Again, had full opportunity to continue to hit him but walked away after the first hit.

Also helped that the plaintiff lied in his testimony.

To be honest it seems like u got off cause it was high school