Battery
Battery is the use of force in opposition to another person without consent and with the intention to do harm to that person.
Battery-Bodily Harm:
An individual who creates physical harm to another adult, unborn child, or mother of an unborn child through an act that is done with an objective to cause physical injury without permission from the individual injured can be charged with a Class A misdemeanor under Wisconsin law.
Battery–Substantial Bodily Harm:
Anyone who causes significant physical injury to another individual including (adult, child, or mother of an unborn child) by an act done with the objective to do physical injury to that individual or to another individual can be charged with a Class I felony.
Battery–Great Bodily Harm:
Any person who causes immense physical injury to another individual (including an adult, child, unborn child, or mother of an unborn child) by an act done with the objective to cause physical injury to that individual or to another individual is accountable of a Class H felony. A Class E felony is when the objective is to cause immense physical injury. If the person deliberately causes physical injury to another by actions that creates a considerable risk of immense physical injury may be charged with a Class H felony.
Great Bodily Harm Defined:
Under Wisconsin law, immense physical harm as physical injury that makes a substantial risk of death, or that causes grave permanent disfigurement, or that creates a permanent or prolonged loss, or impairment of the use of any physical member or organ or other grave physical injury.
Assault and Battery:
Wisconsin law does not use the usual terminology for "assault and battery" which is usually used to define the crime of battery. Battery is defined above. Only if the occurrence includes individuals that have a domestic relationship, then a certain area of the law might be relevant.
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