Posted on 03/25/2011 6:19:57 AM PDT by JoeProBono
PORTLAND, Ore.- Finding that teeth are not a dangerous weapon, The Oregon Court of Appeals Wednesday overturned a first-degree assault conviction.
The case grew out of a 2008 fight, The Oregonian Fellow reported. The two Marion County men involved in the incident were "both incredibly drunk," said Mark Obert, attorney for 30-year-old Scott Russell Kuperus II, who bit off a chunk of his neighbor's ear.
Convicted of first-degree assault and second-degree assault, Kuperus was sentenced to 90 months in prison.
One requirement for a first-degree assault charge is use of a dangerous weapon, defined by state law as any weapon that, "under the circumstances in which it is used, is readily capable of causing death or serious physical injury."
Obert successfully argued, "If teeth are not a weapon, then the first-degree assault charge does not apply." However, because the victim sustained a "serious and protracted disfigurement," the court upheld the second-degree-assault conviction. Kuperus will receive a new sentence, 70 months in prison.
We need to register all these dangerous weapons of bar-b-que destruction for the safety of our society!!!
NO.
WAY.
BS!
I took out the two front teeth of a guy with my knuckles and got a human bite infection. Put me in the hospital for a week under the strongest antibiotic IV known to man.
which movie is that from?
Back on the V mother ship, Anna heads into a room where her "super soldier" lies naked on the floor. She engages him in some kind of bizarre V mating ritual. When Anna is finished, she tells the super solder that her eggs now need nourishment, then EATS HIM!??!? She bares her monstrous alien teeth! Well, that was indeed shocking!
That’s why you never punch folks in the face. Not only is the head hard (for good reason), teeth are crawling with infection. Next time punch him in the chest. It’s a bigger target anyway.
Ask the lady in CT whose face was chewed off by her friend’s chimp what she thinks.
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