Originally Posted by
ldmaster
Like you get angry at your friend, hit him then take his cellphone to find out what text messages he's sent to your girlfriend, while telling him to sit there and not move or you'd do it again. Let's see...
1. Assault - threatened to hit him
2. Battery - hit him
3. Theft - deprived him of property
4. Misuse of a telecommunications device to intercept a call/text that was not meant for you - obvious
5. False Imprisonment - told him to not get up
That's five separate 1,000 fines. Yippee!!!
Heck, you probably would confess to all that stuff right at the scene - goes something like this: "Yeah, I hit the jerk in the face, he was banging my girlfriend! See? I have the proof! I told him if he moved, I'd kick his ass again." I haven't seen this actually happen, but I do know that training is ongoing in "creative charging". Will some of them be dropped at court? Probably/maybe, the misuse probably and the theft maybe. But I've seen someone convicted of theft for taking their girlfriends cellphone out of her hand and refusing to give it back until the police arrived, so he could "prove" she had been unfaithful.
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