Your Honor, please let me present myself, I am Valentin Rotar, the lawyer of John in

this case.

Your Honor, I will start my speech about this event, and I will present the facts.

My client, John is a good student in the second year, his marks proves that, this thing
determine me to say that he have no mental illness, and his actions were just impulsive,
like any teenager , also we know that he did that because of emotions and that he is in
love with Ms. Sonia. This thing can be measured also, we also know how hard a
teenager love, and what mistakes a man can do for the women he loves. My client
punched Mr. Gordnon two times in the face , but let s not forget that Mr. Gordon, before
this event, he made a very insulting speech to my client girlfriend. In this case, for my
client, it is true that he overeacted, but we can say that he was forced to do such things
because of the emotional assault. In this case, I would say that common assault started
from Mr. Gordon for the first time, because of the law of Common assault (section 39,
Criminal Justice Act 1988) :

A person is guilty of common assault if they either inflict violence on another person –
however slight this might be – or make that person think they are about to be attacked.

They do not have to be physically violent – for example, threatening words or a raised
fist could lead the victim to believe they are going to be attacked – and that is enough
for the crime to have been committed. Other acts like spitting at someone may also
classed as common assault.

The offence covers both intentional and reckless acts. For example, the offender may
not have intended to cause the victim to think an attack was imminent but if they
behaved in way that was likely to make the victim think they were about to be attacked,
and they didn’t care what effect that behaviour would have, the offender is guilty of the
offence.

In this way, I can say that my client was provoked to inflict violence.

The injury made by my client it is in the context of an ABH, common assault, actual
bodily harm, he inflicted damages like broken nose and broken lip, without any higher
harm, and for these are no factors indicating higher culpability for my client.

The assault was instantaneous, an element that determines me about the lack of any
premeditation in my clients actions, and indicates a factor for lower culpability.

Because my client was never before implied in such events, I can say that he is not a
dangereous person. He also regrets the event, and the actions made. He is a hard
working student, working part time, and trying to save some money. This context put a
lot of pressure for my client that he knows he could lost everything, The University has
told to Mr. John that if he goes to prison he will be expelled from the University. After all
this facts presented, I just want to say that he doesn’t deserve the possibility of a prison
sentence, but because he have some save money, he will need to use them for Mr.
Gordon costs. We should never take out the part of love in this case, and the age of the
subject plus that he has no previous convinctions,