What is Assault in the First Degree in NYC?
In New York, Assault in the First Degree, Penal Law Section 120.10, is a class B violent felony.
If you or a loved one is charged with Assault in New York, retaining a New York Assault Lawyer is pivotal in achieving a favorable outcome.
The crime of Assault in the First Degree is committed when a person allegedly:
- Causes a Serious Physical Injury to a person with a deadly weapon or a dangerous instrument;
- Intentionally disfigures a person seriously and permanently or destroys, amputates or disables permanently a member or organ of the person’s body;
- With a depraved indifference to human life, recklessly engages in conduct that creates a grave risk of death to a person, and causes a Serious Physical Injury; or
- In the course of and in furtherance of the commission or attempted commission of a felony or of immediate flight therefrom, he, or another participant, causes Serious Physical Injury to a person other than one of the participants.
Assault in the First Degree is a class B violent felony, carrying a mandatory minimum prison sentence of 5 years for a first offender and a maximum sentence of up to 25 years.
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