I was beaten up by 4 guys, one guy stomped on my knee dislocating it, while they all beat into me. I saw them a few minutes later walking down the road so I rang my 2 friends, we got out the car and hit them a few times with bats in the legs causing minor bruising/sprains to three of the guys. I went to jail as did my friends. was this fair? It was my first offence ever.
2007-08-31 17:38:43 · 10 answers · asked by Mick F 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
The other guys didnt go to jail, and I reported it to police when i first got beaten and they told me to forget it and go home!
2007-08-31 17:45:53 · update #1
Yea. 2 wrongs don't make a right. You broke the law too. Even tho they beat you first, you turned around and beat them. So yes both parties should go to jail. You didn't defend your self, you retaliated.
2007-08-31 17:43:46 · answer #1 · answered by IamwhatIam♥♥♥♥♥ 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, you didn't deserve jail time. They wanted you to call the police to let them try to find the people. Here in Calif. a man went to the ATM to get some money ( bad time 11:00 PM) when three kids saw him and asked for the money he had. Later driving down the street that night the older man saw the three in a car and follow them at a normal speed, but the three kids saw him and tryed to get away, in turning onto the ramp to the freeway, two were killed. Now they want to push charges that the older man should have called the police and shouldn't have been following them, causing them to speed and be involved in the accident that caused the death to the two. Good Luck on the out come.
2007-09-04 18:14:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the answers to this question focus on what the law says. And it is most assuredly against the law to attack another person out of retribution.
However, that does not answer the question of whether you deserved to go to jail.
We must ask, "Why does the law make this act prohibited?"
Simply put, retribution is illegal because it is necessary to preserve public peace, and to support the legitimacy of a rational and well-balanced legal system in which a person is assumed innocent until proven otherwise. Who would even bother with court where one was allowed to make their own justice?
In ancient Rome, the courts did not carry out their sentences: they merely authorized the aggreived party to take revenge. But even then, authorization from the court was needed before a man could take his revenge. This was to assure that justice was, in fact, served. No civilized nation in history has allowed punishment without a process of neutral review.
Why is this? It is because one man's justice is not society's justice. The law is concerned with maintaining the public peace: When you took your revenge, that may have been justice for you, but for society this was an act against the public peace just as grievous as the original crime, because your actions not only involved attacking a person, but in addition, you undermined the criminal court system. From the perspective of society, that is dangerous and anarchistic.
P.S. If you had asked for justice through the proper channels, and been denied, then you might be able to make at least a philisophical case that you had the right to seek justice on your own. But you did not do this. You took the law into your own hands.
Aha! But you say you called the local police department, and they turned you down. That is completely irrelevant. Justice existed for hundreds of years before "police departments" even existed. Everybody is equal before a criminal court: a police department is simply a group of people employed by a town or city to catch criminals, like a public security force. Even if a police officer refused to take action, you would have had just as much right to take the case before a criminal court yourself, and seek justice.
2007-09-01 01:16:18 · answer #3 · answered by Jason W 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Though you are guilty, you do not want this on your record. I would see a lawyer to try to get this expunged off your record. A judge may be willing if you keep you nose clean for a couple of years.
The same goes of a fight between 2 people. If you don't fight back the other person is guilty of assault.
2007-09-01 01:01:45 · answer #4 · answered by paul 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with the other respondent, you broke the law. Aggravated assault though it might have been, you did break the law. You should have sought out the police and had them deal with the incident.
2007-09-01 00:47:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to the law you assaulted them, according to the man laws, they deserved what they got and they should have been arrested when you reported your attack, I would look into that.
2007-09-01 00:49:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes more and likely you and your friends will go to jail.
The other guys probably got off cause they have callused knees if you know what i mean.
2007-09-01 00:56:34 · answer #7 · answered by s l 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Retribution or not, Aggravated Assault(Use of a weapon) is a FELONY and you deserved to get locked up !
2007-09-01 00:45:15 · answer #8 · answered by AZRAEL 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
no you did not deserve the jail ,because police should have lodged complaint from your side also. hence giving fare treatment to you
2007-09-01 00:49:05 · answer #9 · answered by sameer s 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You really did.
2007-09-01 00:45:59 · answer #10 · answered by the hump 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋