Legal Opinion
Lee v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided September 4, 2003No. 02-CM-45PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TERRY, Associate Judge:
Appellant was charged by information with simple assault, attempted cruelty to children in the second degree, and attempted possession of a prohibited weapon. All of these charges arose from the same incident, in which appellant struck her sixteen-year-old daughter on the shoulders and legs with a wooden dowel. At a non-jury trial, appellant conceded that she struck and caused harm to her daughter, but claimed self-defense and asserted the parental discipline privilege. The trial court rejected both of these defenses, and found appellant guilty of simple assault and…
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