Question

Practice Question: Anne-Marie is generally a likable person. One day while hanging out with her friends,
she gets into an argument with Wilson. During the argument, he says some very offensive and
slanderous things about Anne-Marie. Unwilling to take Wilson’s verbal abuse, Anne-Marie sprays him in
the face with a can of mace that she carries in her purse. Wilson falls to the ground in pain. Some
bystanders see Wilson in pain and call the police and rescue squad. It turns out that Wilson suffers
severe damage to his sight because of the caustic spray. Because of the incident, Anne-Marie ultimately
serves 30 days in jail and is forced to pay a judgment to Wilson for $50,000. Is Anne-Marie’s punishment
a result of criminal law, civil law, or both? Discuss.

Answer 1

Ans. The punishment of Anne - Marie is just a result of criminal law because what she did was a crime as due to it , Wilson had a problem with his vision and he might lose it . Criminal law includes threatning, murdering or causing any such harm to a person while the civil law consists of the crime related to the property of a person which is not a case in this situation. It is entirely a case of criminal law but nothing like civil law as no property dispute is being talked about here.