State v. KUPERUS

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a “visible scar approxi- mately four and one-half to five centimeters long where the portion of the ear [wa]s missing” was a “serious and pro- tracted disfigurement and, thus, a serious physical injury”
• Defendant’s teeth are not considered a “dangerous” or “deadly” weapon for the purposes of assault.
• The crime of assault in the first degree is committed when the person “[i]n-tentionally causes serious physical injury to another by means of a deadly or dangerous weapon.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).