JORGE L. RODRIGUEZ and LUIS RODRIGUEZ v. JUAN RODRIGUEZ

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[A]n assault is defined as either an attempt to use physical force on another, or as a threat of use of physical force.”
• to commit assault, defendant must engage in “objectively menacing” conduct with intent to place victim in fear [citation omitted]
• \an assault may be accomplished ... by putting another in fear of an immediately threatened battery\
• substantial risk of miscarriage of justice where judge incorrectly expanded definition of assault to include “an attempt to do psychological harm”
• fact finder could \reasonably . . . infer[] that the defendant intended to kidnap the [victim]\ from \evidence that the defendant falsely enticed the [victim] into the crafts room\
• “Under the common law, an assault may be accomplished in one of two ways — either by an attempted battery, or by putting another in fear of an immediately threatened battery”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).