El Paso Violent Crime Lawyers

What Is a Violent Crime in El Paso?

Texas has many criminal offenses where violence plays a significant role. 

Depending on the circumstances of your case, you could be arrested for any one of these criminal offenses, including:

• Aggravated assault: Aggravated assault involves intentionally causing serious bodily injury to another person or using a deadly weapon during the assault. This crime carries greater weight than “simple” assault due to the added elements of harm and danger. 
• Simple assault:  Assault occurs when you intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly cause bodily injury to another, threaten someone with imminent bodily injury, or cause physical contact when you know or should reasonably believe the contact is provocative. Simple assault does not involve the use of a weapon or result in serious injury.
• Sexual assault: This is defined as non-consensual sexual contact involving intentional penetration with any body part or object. Consent in sexual activity must be explicit and without force, intimidation, or incapacity due to drugs, alcohol, or age. 
• Rape: Rape is a severe form of sexual assault that entails forced or coerced sexual intercourse without consent. It involves physical force, manipulation, or incapacitation to overcome a victim's will. Rape law in Texas consists of the lack of consent and the presence of extreme coercion or violence. 
• Murder: Murder is the intentional and unlawful killing of another person with malice aforethought. This crime is considered premeditated and deliberate, reflecting the accused's intention to cause death or serious harm. 
• Manslaughter: This offense refers to the reckless causing of another person's death without premeditation. It involves actions that are dangerously careless and not necessarily intended to kill but which lead to a fatality. 
• Domestic violence: This involves acts of abuse between family members or those in a household. This includes physical harm, threats of harm, emotional abuse, or any behavior that controls or intimidates another member of the domestic unit. 
• Terroristic threat: This crime involves threatening to commit violence to cause fear, panic, evacuation, or serious public inconvenience. In Texas, terroristic threats can be prosecuted if they intend to affect emergency responses or influence public behavior.
• Stalking/harassment: These are characterized by a pattern of behavior that causes someone to feel threatened or unsafe, such as repeated following or surveillance. Harassment includes acts intended to annoy, alarm, abuse, or torment another, often manifesting through unwanted communication and contact. 
• Deadly conduct: This offense Involves actions that present a significant risk of serious bodily injury to others, such as discharging a firearm in the direction of another person or into an occupied building. Intentional recklessness regarding the safety of others characterizes this crime. 
• Kidnapping: This is the unlawful abduction of a person with the intent to hold them in a place where they are unlikely to be found or to cause bodily harm or terrorize them. This crime involves taking someone against their will with the potential for serious harm or ransom.
• Robbery: This is defined as taking or attempting to take property from another by violence or threat of harm. It can involve using force, intimidation, or coercion to deprive someone of their possessions. It becomes aggravated if a weapon is used or if serious bodily injury occurs.