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HB 640 Malicious bodily injury; applicable to game wardens.

Introduced by: Watkins M. Abbitt, Jr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Malicious injury; law-enforcement officers. Adds game wardens to the definition of law-enforcement officer so that the enhanced penalty will apply if they are the victims of malicious or unlawful wounding. Malicious wounding is a Class 3 felony (five-20 years) and malicious wounding of a law-enforcement officer is five-30 years with a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of two years. In the case of unlawful wounding the penalty is a Class 6 felony (one-five years) with a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of one year if the victim is a law-enforcement officer.


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