James Regan

James Regan Palm City Violent Crime Lawyer

Posted over 14 years ago.

Florida Department of Corrections describes violent crime as follows:

A crime is defined as violent if the crime involves actual or the threat of physical harm to a person or the crime has a reasonable probability of causing unintended physical harm or physical threat of harm to a person.

One of the following conditions must occur for a crime to be defined as violent under this definition:

Actual physical harm.
Actual threat of physical harm.
A reasonable probability existed that individual criminal acts could have resulted in unintended physical harm.
A reasonable probability existed that individual criminal acts could have resulted in the threat of physical harm.