Connecticut Attorneys, Lawyers, Law Firms
- What is Personal Injury Law?
Personal injury falls under Tort Law. Personal Injury involves
civil law cases where you are trying to obtain compensation for
an injury you sustained to your person. Before you can collect
an award, your personal injury lawyer will have to prove that
the defendant is liable. To prove liability, the attorney must
also establish negligence.
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injury lawyers/attorneys:
What is Criminal Law?
like civil law, which involves private law suits between two or
private entities; criminal law involves prosecution by the state
or federal government of a person or business for an act that has
been classified as a crime. Any act or omission of an act in violation
of a public law forbidding or commanding it is considered a "crime."
With the exception of strict liability crimes, most crimes consist
of three elements: an act (actus reus), a mental state (mens rea)
and the intent to do social harm. Crimes are classified as "misdemeanors"
(less serious offenses that are normally punishable by a fine like
some traffic violations, petty theft, or possession of a small amount
of marijuana) and "felonies" (more serious offenses that
warrant imprisonment of one or more years, such as rape, grand theft,
assault and battery, assault with a deadly weapon, or homicide/murder).
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