What is the maximum punishment for battery by a prisoner?
Full Question:
Please help me to understand what is the maximum punishment for battery by prisoner. Also, how can you approach the judge as far as defending yourself.
11/07/2007 |
Category: Criminal |
State: Wisconsin |
#11812
Answer:
The following are Wisconsin statutes:
940.20 Battery: special circumstances.
(1) Battery by prisoners. Any prisoner confined to a state prison or
other state, county or municipal detention facility who intentionally
causes bodily harm to an officer, employee, visitor or another inmate of
such prison or institution, without his or her consent, is guilty of a
Class H felony.
(1g) Battery by certain committed persons. Any person placed in a
facility under s. 980.065 and who intentionally causes bodily harm to an
officer, employee, agent, visitor, or other resident of the facility,
without his or her consent, is guilty of a Class H felony.
(1m) Battery by persons subject to certain injunctions.
(a) Any person who is subject to an injunction under s. 813.12 or a
tribal injunction filed under s. 806.247 (3) and who intentionally causes
bodily harm to the petitioner who sought the injunction by an act done
without the consent of the petitioner is guilty of a Class I felony.
(b) Any person who is subject to an injunction under s. 813.125 and who
intentionally causes bodily harm to the petitioner who sought the
injunction by an act done without the consent of the petitioner is guilty
of a Class I felony.
(2) Battery to law enforcement officers and fire fighters. Whoever
intentionally causes bodily harm to a law enforcement officer or fire
fighter, as those terms are defined in s. 102.475 (8) (b) and (c), acting
in an official capacity and the person knows or has reason to know that the
victim is a law enforcement officer or fire fighter, by an act done without
the consent of the person so injured, is guilty of a Class H felony.
(2m) Battery to probation, extended supervision and parole agents and
aftercare agents.
(a) In this subsection:
1. "Aftercare agent" means any person authorized by the department of
corrections to exercise control over a juvenile on aftercare.
2. "Probation, extended supervision and parole agent" means any person
authorized by the department of corrections to exercise control over a
probationer, parolee or person on extended supervision.
(b) Whoever intentionally causes bodily harm to a probation, extended
supervision and parole agent or an aftercare agent, acting in an official
capacity and the person knows or has reason to know that the victim is a
probation, extended supervision and parole agent or an aftercare agent, by
an act done without the consent of the person so injured, is guilty of a
Class H felony.
(3) Battery to jurors. Whoever intentionally causes bodily harm to a
person who he or she knows or has reason to know is or was a grand or petit
juror, and by reason of any verdict or indictment assented to by the
person, without the consent of the person injured, is guilty of a Class H
felony.
(4) Battery to public officers. Whoever intentionally causes bodily harm
to a public officer in order to influence the action of such officer or as
a result of any action taken within an official capacity, without the
consent of the person injured, is guilty of a Class I felony.
(5) Battery to technical college district or school district officers and
employees.
(a) In this subsection:
1. "School district" has the meaning given in s. 115.01 (3).
2. "Technical college district" means a district established under
ch. 38.
(b) Whoever intentionally causes bodily harm to a technical college
district or school district officer or employee acting in that capacity,
and the person knows or has reason to know that the victim is a technical
college district or school district officer or employee, without the
consent of the person so injured, is guilty of a Class I felony.
(6) Battery to public transit vehicle operator, driver or passenger.
(a) In this subsection, "public transit vehicle" means any vehicle used
for providing transportation service to the general public.
(b) Whoever intentionally causes bodily harm to another under any of the
following circumstances is guilty of a Class I felony:
1. The harm occurs while the victim is an operator, a driver or a
passenger of, in or on a public transit vehicle.
2. The harm occurs after the offender forces or directs the victim to
leave a public transit vehicle.
3. The harm occurs as the offender prevents, or attempts to prevent, the
victim from gaining lawful access to a public transit vehicle.
(7) Battery to emergency medical care providers.
(a) In this subsection:
1e. "Ambulance" has the meaning given in s. 146.50 (1) (am).
1g. "Emergency department" means a room or area in a hospital, as defined
in s. 50.33 (2), that is primarily used to provide emergency care,
diagnosis or radiological treatment.
< 2. "Emergency department worker" means any of the following:
a. An employee of a hospital who works in an emergency department.
b. A health care provider, whether or not employed by a hospital, who
works in an emergency department.
2g. "Emergency medical technician" has the meaning given in s. 146.50 (1)
(e).
2m. "First responder" has the meaning given in s. 146.53 (1) (d).
3. "Health care provider" means any person who is licensed, registered,
permitted or certified by the department of health and family services or
the department of regulation and licensing to provide health care services
in this state.
(b) Whoever intentionally causes bodily harm to an emergency department
worker, an emergency medical technician, a first responder or an ambulance
driver who is acting in an official capacity and who the person knows or
has reason to know is an emergency department worker, an emergency medical
technician, a first responder or an ambulance driver, by an act done
without the consent of the person so injured, is guilty of a Class H
felony.
939.50 Classification of felonies.
(1) Felonies in the statutes are classified as follows:
(a) Class A felony.
(b) Class B felony.
(c) Class C felony.
(d) Class D felony.
(e) Class E felony.
(f) Class F felony.
(g) Class G felony.
(h) Class H felony.
(i) Class I felony.
(2) A felony is a Class A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, or I felony when it is so
specified in the statutes.
(3) Penalties for felonies are as follows:
(a) For a Class A felony, life imprisonment.
(b) For a Class B felony, imprisonment not to exceed 60 years.
(c) For a Class C felony, a fine not to exceed $100,000 or imprisonment
not to exceed 40 years, or both.
(d) For a Class D felony, a fine not to exceed $100,000 or imprisonment
not to exceed 25 years, or both.
(e) For a Class E felony, a fine not to exceed $50,000 or imprisonment
not to exceed 15 years, or both.
(f) For a Class F felony, a fine not to exceed $25,000 or imprisonment
not to exceed 12 years and 6 months, or both.
(g) For a Class G felony, a fine not to exceed $25,000 or imprisonment
not to exceed 10 years, or both.
(h) For a Class H felony, a fine not to exceed $10,000 or imprisonment
not to exceed 6 years, or both.
(i) For a Class I felony, a fine not to exceed $10,000 or imprisonment
not to exceed 3 years and 6 months, or both.
939.60 Felony and misdemeanor defined.
A crime punishable by imprisonment in the Wisconsin state prisons is a
felony. Every other crime is a misdemeanor.
939.62 Increased penalty for habitual criminality.
(1) If the actor is a repeater, as that term is defined in sub. (2), and
the present conviction is for any crime for which imprisonment may be
imposed, except for an escape under s. 946.42 or a failure to report under
s. 946.425, the maximum term of imprisonment prescribed by law for that
crime may be increased as follows:
(a) A maximum term of imprisonment of one year or less may be increased
to not more than 2 years.
(b) A maximum term of imprisonment of more than one year but not more
than 10 years may be increased by not more than 2 years if the prior
convictions were for misdemeanors and by not more than 4 years if the prior
conviction was for a felony.
(c) A maximum term of imprisonment of more than 10 years may be increased
by not more than 2 years if the prior convictions were for misdemeanors and
by not more than 6 years if the prior conviction was for a felony.
(2) The actor is a repeater if the actor was convicted of a felony during
the 5-year period immediately preceding the commission of the crime for
which the actor presently is being sentenced, or if the actor was convicted
of a misdemeanor on 3 separate occasions during that same period, which
convictions remain of record and unreversed. It is immaterial that sentence
was stayed, withheld or suspended, or that the actor was pardoned, unless
such pardon was granted on the ground of innocence. In computing the
preceding 5-year period, time which the actor spent in actual confinement
serving a criminal sentence shall be excluded.
(2m)(a) In this subsection:
1m. "Serious child sex offense" means any of the following:
a. A violation of s. 948.02, 948.025, 948.05, 948.055, 948.06, 948.07,
948.08, 948.085, or 948.095 or 948.30 or, if the victim was a minor and the
convicted person was not the victim's parent, a violation of s. 940.31.
b. A crime at any time under federal law or the law of any other state
or, prior to July 16, 1998, under the law of this state that is comparable
to a crime specified in subd. 1m. a.
2m. "Serious felony" means any of the following:
a. Any felony under s. 961.41 (1), (1m) or (1x) that is a Class A, B, or
C felony or, if the felony was committed before February 1, 2003, that is
or was punishable by a maximum prison term of 30 years or more.
am. A crime under s. 961.65.
b. Any felony under s. 940.09 (1), 1999 stats., s. 943.23 (1m) or (1r),
1999 stats., s. 948.35 (1) (b) or (c), 1999 stats., or s. 948.36, 1999
stats., or s. 940.01, 940.02, 940.03, 940.05, 940.09 (1c), 940.16, 940.19
(5), 940.195 (5), 940.21, 940.225 (1) or (2), 940.305, 940.31, 941.327 (2)
(b) 4., 943.02, 943.10 (2), 943.23 (1g), 943.32 (2), 946.43 (1m), 948.02
(1) or (2), 948.025, 948.03 (2) (a) or (c), 948.05, 948.06, 948.07,
948.075, 948.08, 948.085, or 948.30 (2).
c. The solicitation, conspiracy or attempt, under s. 939.30, 939.31 or
939.32, to commit a Class A felony.
d. A crime at any time under federal law or the law of any other state
or, prior to April 28, 1994, under the law of this state that is comparable
to a crime specified in this subd. 2m. a., am., b., or c.
(b) The actor is a persistent repeater if one of the following applies:
1. The actor has been convicted of a serious felony on 2 or more separate
occasions at any time preceding the serious felony for which he or she
presently is being sentenced under ch. 973, which convictions remain of
record and unreversed and, of the 2 or more previous convictions, at least
one conviction occurred before the date of violation of at least one of the
other felonies for which the actor was previously convicted.
2. The actor has been convicted of a serious child sex offense on at
least one occasion at any time preceding the date of violation of the
serious child sex offense for which he or she presently is being sentenced
under ch. 973, which conviction remains of record and unreversed.
(bm) For purposes of counting a conviction under par. (b), it is
immaterial that the sentence for the previous conviction was stayed,
withheld or suspended, or that the actor was pardoned, unless the pardon
was granted on the ground of innocence.
(c) If the actor is a persistent repeater, the term of imprisonment for
the felony for which the persistent repeater presently is being sentenced
under ch. 973 is life imprisonment without the possibility of parole or
extended supervision.
(d) If a prior conviction is being considered as being covered under par.
(a) 1m. b. or 2m. d. as comparable to a felony specified under par. (a) 1m.
a. or 2m. a., am., b., or c., the conviction may be counted as a prior
conviction under par. (b) only if the court determines, beyond a reasonable
doubt, that the violation relating to that conviction would constitute a
felony specified under par. (a) 1m. a. or 2m. a., am., b., or c. if
committed by an adult in this state.
(3) In this section "felony" and "misdemeanor" have the following
meanings:
(a) In case of crimes committed in this state, the terms do not include
motor vehicle offenses under chs. 341 to 349 and offenses handled through
proceedings in the court assigned to exercise jurisdiction under chs. 48
and 938, but otherwise have the meanings designated in s. 939.60.
(b) In case of crimes committed in other jurisdictions, the terms do not
include those crimes which are equivalent to motor vehicle offenses under
chs. 341 to 349 or to offenses handled through proceedings in the court
assigned to exercise jurisdiction under chs. 48 and 938. Otherwise, felony
means a crime which under the laws of that jurisdiction carries a
prescribed maximum penalty of imprisonment in a prison or penitentiary for
one year or more. Misdemeanor means a crime which does not carry a
prescribed maximum penalty sufficient to constitute it a felony and
includes crimes punishable only by a fine.
939.63 Penalties; use of a dangerous weapon.
(1) If a person commits a crime while possessing, using or threatening to
use a dangerous weapon, the maximum term of imprisonment prescribed by law
for that crime may be increased as follows:
(a) The maximum term of imprisonment for a misdemeanor may be increased
by not more than 6 months.
(b) If the maximum term of imprisonment for a felony is more than 5 years
or is a life term, the maximum term of imprisonment for the felony may be
increased by not more than 5 years.
(c) If the maximum term of imprisonment for a felony is more than 2
years, but not more than 5 years, the maximum term of imprisonment for the
felony may be increased by not more than 4 years.
(d) The maximum term of imprisonment for a felony not specified in par.
(b) or (c) may be increased by not more than 3 years.
(2) The increased penalty provided in this section does not apply if
possessing, using or threatening to use a dangerous weapon is an essential
element of the crime charged.
(3) This section applies only to crimes specified under chs. 939 to 951
and 961.
939.645 Penalty; crimes committed against certain people or property.
(1) If a person does all of the following, the penalties for the
underlying crime are increased as provided in sub. (2):
(a) Commits a crime under chs. 939 to 948.
(b) Intentionally selects the person against whom the crime under par.
(a) is committed or selects the property that is damaged or otherwise
affected by the crime under par. (a) in whole or in part because of the
actor's belief or perception regarding the race, religion, color,
disability, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry of that person
or the owner or occupant of that property, whether or not the actor's
belief or perception was correct.
(2)(a) If the crime committed under sub. (1) is ordinarily a misdemeanor
other than a Class A misdemeanor, the revised maximum fine is $10,000 and
the revised maximum term of imprisonment is one year in the county jail.
(b) If the crime committed under sub. (1) is ordinarily a Class A
misdemeanor, the penalty increase under this section changes the status of
the crime to a felony and the revised maximum fine is $10,000 and the
revised maximum term of imprisonment is 2 years.
(c) If the crime committed under sub. (1) is a felony, the maximum fine
prescribed by law for the crime may be increased by not more than $5,000
and the maximum term of imprisonment prescribed by law for the crime may be
increased by not more than 5 years.
(3) This section provides for the enhancement of the penalties applicable
for the underlying crime. The court shall direct that the trier of fact
find a special verdict as to all of the issues specified in sub. (1).
(4) This section does not apply to any crime if proof of race, religion,
color, disability, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry or proof
of any person's perception or belief regarding another's race, religion,
color, disability, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry is
required for a conviction for that crime.