is there a time limit on pressing assault charges?

Question

my son was in a fight at school. he got exspelled for the year cause of zero tolerance. during the fight a female teacher split the boys up. my sons body pushed the teacher. not hard. he was going around her to get the boy again and pushed her with his shoulder. the the resource officer said he was going to put assualt charges. how long before we get served this papers? is there a time limit?

before everyone hangs my son u should know it was a bully and my son got tired of it and stood up for himself. this bully picked on him for 13 weeks. last straw he came up from behind and put my son in a chokehold when he was sitting at his desk. class started my son sat there thinking for 30 minutes what he should do to get this boy to leave him alone. and he got up walked to the boy and kicked his tail. teacher broke it up and was standing between them and son went after him again. thats when she got bumped. then they went in the hall and teacher has my son by theback of his jacket he took jacket off by jerking arms back and she said son hit her. on tape it don show she was hit but that my son was jerkin jacket off. he then went to office.

the resource officer was the one that told us they was pressing assualt charges on my son cause he touched his teacher. its all in the zero tolerance law the USA just passed a few years ago.

Answer 1

The process: A person is a victim of a crime. Said person makes a report to the police, in this case a Battery (the offensive touching of another with intent, without consent) which you son likely is guilty, but very minor violation. The Victim can then make a police report and sign a citizen's arrest form, or not sign the arrest document.
Next, the police have to make a report. Talk to witnesses, collect evidence, etc. They then turn the completed report to the prosecution office where you live. Since this would be a misdemeanor it could the District Attorney, City Attorney, States Attorney or County Attorney. (Different jurisdictions call it different names).
Then, the prosecutor's office review the report and decide if they are going to file charges. They make the final decision.

Statue of limitations vary also, in California they are one year on a misdemeanor. If charges are filed, your son should receive a letter, though I suspect they would call and ask to talk to your son before the charges would be filed.

Answer 2

There is a different side to every story, but if this child was truelly a bully then he deserved this. So congratulations to your son. If more children would stand up for themselves the world would probably be different. The assault charges is probably just a story, but get your son a attorney. If the tape does not show this I would not worry. Call your local magistrate and find out about the statue of limitations of these charges. I say get an attorney because you do not want this to follow your son if this is not true.

Answer 3

Yes, its usually one year, but you can all the county attorneys office or even the school resource officer, the teacher probably did not press charges, the police can't do it the teacher has to. But you can bring charges against that other boy, and I would.

Answer 4

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