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Crimes Against Persons

Offenses involving assault, battery, robbery, stalking, and related crimes against people under Florida law.

Offenses

Assault

Florida Statute § 784.011

An intentional unlawful threat by word or act to do violence to another person under circumstances creating a well-founded fear that the violence is imminent.

MisdemeanorSecond Degree

Battery

Florida Statute § 784.03

Intentional touching or striking of another person against their will, or intentionally causing bodily harm.

MisdemeanorFirst Degree

Felony Battery

Florida Statute § 784.041

An intentional unwanted touching or striking that causes great bodily harm, permanent disability, or permanent disfigurement.

FelonyThird Degree

Battery by Strangulation

Florida Statute § 784.031

Knowingly and intentionally impeding another person's normal breathing or blood circulation against that person's will in a manner creating a risk of, or causing, great bodily harm.

FelonyThird Degree

Aggravated Assault

Florida Statute § 784.021

An assault committed with a deadly weapon without intent to kill, or with intent to commit a felony.

FelonyThird Degree

Aggravated Battery

Florida Statute § 784.045

A battery committed under aggravating circumstances recognized by Florida law.

FelonySecond Degree

Robbery

Florida Statute § 812.13

Taking property from another person through force, violence, assault, or putting the person in fear.

FelonyVaries

Home-Invasion Robbery

Florida Statute § 812.135

Entering a dwelling with intent to commit robbery and committing robbery of an occupant inside.

FelonyFirst Degree

Robbery by Sudden Snatching

Florida Statute § 812.131

Taking money or property from a victim's person when the victim was or became aware of the taking.

FelonyVaries

Carjacking

Florida Statute § 812.133

Taking a motor vehicle from another person's person or custody through force, violence, assault, or putting in fear.

FelonyFirst Degree

Stalking

Florida Statute § 784.048

Willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly following, harassing, or cyberstalking another person.

VariesVaries

False Imprisonment

Florida Statute § 787.02

Forcibly, secretly, or by threat confining, abducting, imprisoning, or restraining another without lawful authority and against the person's will.

VariesVaries

Murder and Felony Murder

Florida Statute § 782.04

Unlawful killing under Florida's premeditated, felony-murder, and listed drug-distribution murder provisions.

VariesVaries

Written or Electronic Threats

Florida Statute § 836.10

Sending, posting, transmitting, or procuring a written or electronic threat to kill, cause bodily injury, conduct a mass shooting, or commit terrorism.

FelonySecond Degree