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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Well, unless there's more (like the other guy swing first or agreed to fight) he's still guilty. It might lower the sentence. Provocation isn't a defence to assault.
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True. But it might be a way of bargaining down to a misdemeanour charge of simple assault.
(EDIT: I see you mentioned the same thing while I was typing my reply. I paused to look up the categories of assault under Pennsylvania law.)
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