Citation

Breyfogle K. William Mary J. Race Gender Soc. Justice 2018; 24(3): 617.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Marshall-Wythe School of Law of the College of William and Mary)

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Abstract

For offenses committed under Virginia's assault and battery against a household or family member statute, the State should prosecute and punish in cases where both parties committed an assault and battery. Punishment, however, should consist of mainly individualized counseling or some other mitigated punishment for cases of mutual fighting.


Repository Citation
Kristi A. Breyfogle, Into the Gray Zone: Examining Mutual Combat as a Defense to Domestic Assault, 24 Wm. & Mary J. Women & L. 617 (2018),

https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmjowl/vol24/iss3/7

Language: en