Affray

• Affray

A criminal offense generally defined as the fighting of two or more persons in a public place that disturbs others. The off...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• A–Ba

• Maryland Court of Special Appeals Upholds Use of Obscure Common-Law Crime

In a matter of first impression, the Court of Special Appeals has upheld a Charles County man's convictions for affray and manslaughter, dismissing his argument that the little-known offense of affray no longer exists. An affray consists of two of more people fighting in a public place, terrorizing the people.

• The Daily Record (Baltimore)
• June 13, 2010

• State v. Waller, (Ohio 2006)

Self-defense; causing the affray.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• State v. Kucharski, (Ohio 2005)

Defendant’s trial counsel was not ineffective for proposing a jury instruction on Defendant’s claim of self-defense which implied that he had a duty to retreat before using nondeadly force, because the fact that Defendant was the first aggressor in the affray prevents a finding that he acted in self-defense; Defendant’s conviction for felonious assault is not against the manifest weight of the evidence; trial court erred when it ordered restitution absent a journalized finding of the amount Defendant must pay. Judgment reversed in part, and remanded.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Judge &Amp; Jury Say Raytheon 9 Not Guilty

A court in Belfast, Northern Ireland acquitted nine men on charges of affray and criminal damage for rubbishing files, a mainframe server and computer workstations at Raytheon Corporation's Londonderry offices on August 9, 2006. Raytheon's hi-tech venture into Northern Ireland was offered as a plum for the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, with the power-sharing government's then solemn, but now shattered, vow that no military software development would be done there. During three weeks of trial in May and June, Raytheon corporate witnesses revealed their chilling disregard for the known use and lethal effect upon innocents by their overseas client. We took the action we did in the immediate aftermath of the slaughter of innocents in Qana on July 30th 2006. The people of Qana are our neighbo...

• Nuclear Resister
• Nbr. 149, July 2008

• Snoop Dogg Released On Bail After Fracas at London Airport

Snoop has been released on bail," said his attorney, Peter Binning. "He will return at a later date. When officers told the group they wouldn't be allowed to board their flight, "a number of the group became abusive and pushed officers," a police spokeswoman said on the force's customary condition of anonymity. The six men were arrested on charges of "violent disorder and affray" - or creating a brawl or disturbance - and spent the night at London police stations. Police said all those arrested were U.S. citizens in their 30s.

• Chicago Defender
• August 06, 2009

• Looking Back 0815

years ago, 1909 As the result of a double shooting affray about 10 o'clock Sunday evening Charles Buker and Nellie Miller, both of this city, are at the C.M.G. Hospital where at an early hour this morning their condition was reported as favorable. The shooting occurred on Lowell street in front of the house occupied by Mrs. Myrtle Yates. Neither of the parties would talk but Leontine Dechene, who claims to have witnessed the affair, says that the Miller girl fired the shots. Several witnesses are being held to tell their versions of the affair.

• Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
• June 25, 2010

• State v. Gillespie, (Ohio 2007)

Trial court abused its discretion in denying Defendant’s request for a jury instruction on self-defense on the court’s finding that Defendant was at fault in creating the situation which led to the affray in which he shot the victim; consecutive sentences were mandated by statute, and the holding in State v. Foster, is not implicated. Reversed, in part and Remanded. (Donovan, J., dissenting).

• Ohio Supreme Court

• It's Only a Word or Two

Let us suppose that two schoolboys are having a playground altercation. It begins with the Insult Mild. It proceeds by degrees to the Imprecation Serious and finally to the Curse Unforgivable. Then the vocal combatants resort to blows. Other playmates join the horrid affray. In the principal's office, it appears that Nino is in deep doo- doo. Witnesses say he struck the first blow. He offers a Plea in Abatement. The annotated record reveals that:

• Augusta Chronicle, The
• January 04, 2006

• State v. Neal, (Ohio 2004)

CRIMINAL LAW -- A trial court should generally give a proposed jury instruction if it is a correct statement of the law and is applicable to the facts of the particular case. For a jury instruction on self-defense to be required, the defendant must meet the burden of going forward with evidence of a nature and quality sufficient to raise that defense and raise questions in the minds of reasonable men as to the existence of that issue. To establish self-defense, the defendant must show: (1) that he was not at fault in creating the situation giving rise to the affray; (2) that he had a bona fide belief that he was in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm and that his only means of escape from such danger was in the use of such force; and (3) the defendant must not have violate...

• Ohio Supreme Court