In general you have to not be the aggressor and you have to reasonably.

Will i go to jail if i punch someone in the face. Schwartzbach says that even if someone threatens you and says theyre going to beat you up or kill you the law doesnt give you the right to slug them. Avoid being blocked by Facebook. Yes you can be taken to jail for hitting a girl.

Will you serve time and go to jail. I am not your lawyer. Almost 20 years ago NHL player Marty McSorley hit another player in the head during a game with his stick.

What kind of legal charges are you facing if you punch someone in the face and bust them up pretty bad. If this happens to you its no different than if someone hit you in the face with a bat. What kind depends on the state and the time it happened.

In fact I knew that the title would be provocative precisely because we live in a culture where I am not supposed to even ask such a thing. You could be charged with the crime of battery if you hit someone in the face. The Secret Service would take you down immediately and even if your intent were merely to punch the President of the United States in the face it could be seen as an assassination attempt and if you werent killed on the spot you would certainly to go jail for a long long time.

You can go to jail as a result of participating in the act anywhere and everywhere in public or private. Someone threw water on me I punched them in the face can I press charges and not go to jail or be charge. Self defense may only be invoked to prevent further harm not to retaliate against a person who has already harmed you.

In the real world where we actually live the preponderance of people from your friendly neighborhood patriarch to his twin sister the Gloria Steinem clone see this type of dialog as a reason to go nuclear. None the less something of a bigger deal was going on because normally if someone hasnt came to the door after you beat on all sides and honk your horn for half an hour chances are they dont want to talk to you or they are dead. Or could it be that you have the brain of a bird.