Defending your rights

Assault charges often result from a misunderstanding. Consider the following examples:

• A fan leaving a Carolina Panthers game pushes his way to the street and is arrested for being intoxicated and disruptive or assault/affray.
• A patron in a bar fight elbows someone approaching from the rear — not knowing that it is a responding police officer — and is charged with assault on a police officer or resisting arrest.
• A marital argument escalates until domestic assault charges (like assault on a female) are filed.
• The “loser” in a fight at a NASCAR race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway files charges against the “winner.”
• A person trying to break up a fight may appear to be a participant and then be charged.
• A suspect who is confused and unfamiliar with the arrest process may be improperly charged with resisting arrest.
• A person strikes another in self-defense.

At the Law Offices of Ronald J. Shook in Gastonia, we provide powerful representation to clients charged with assault and violent crimes, including:

• Resisting arrest, resisting, obstructing or delaying an officer, assault on a police officer (or assault on a law enforcement officer)
• Affray
• Domestic assault
• Communicating threats
• Sexual assault
• Harassing telephone calls
• Stalking
• Child abuse
• Assault with a deadly weapon
• Battery
• Rape

Call 704-671-2390 or email our Gastonia office to schedule a consultation about assault charges and possible defense strategies.

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