Real Housewives Hair Pulling & Wine Throwing: Assault
The Bravo Docket
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🗓️ 18 January 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we define assault and battery, discuss the legal theory of self-defense, and talk about provocation and "fighting words." We use examples of threats and hair pulls by housewives from past episodes, and analyze the physical altercation between Monique and Candiace, of the Real Housewives of Potomac, from a legal perspective.
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| 0:00.0 | In reality television, the people are represented by two separate but equally obsessed attorneys. |
| 0:06.2 | This is their podcast. Hi, I'm Sussi. And I'm Angela. And this is the Bravo docket. So welcome to our first official episode. What are we talking about today? |
| 0:27.9 | We are going to explain the legal concepts of assault and battery. So we're going to give you basic legal |
| 0:35.2 | definitions and then apply those to facts as we've all witnessed them in real |
| 0:40.9 | housewives. Right so do you want to start by giving a definition of what an assault is? |
| 0:47.0 | When I was in law school over a decade ago and we learned the definition of assault it was the fear or imminent apprehension of |
| 0:56.5 | immediate bodily harm. |
| 0:58.3 | Assault wasn't physical contact or touching like if you think about assault with a |
| 1:02.4 | deadly weapon that doesn't mean that you've been hit or shot with the deadly weapon it means someone's pointed a loaded gun at you. |
| 1:10.0 | Do you want to give us some examples like from the show or the different franchises of assault? |
| 1:15.2 | I would say Amsterdam season 5 episode 16, Lisa Renna and Kim Richards when Lisa Renna lunches across the table at Kim Richards and breaks a wine glass. |
| 1:25.9 | I think Kim would have felt assaulted. |
| 1:28.4 | She literally lunged at her, broke a wine glass and was screaming. |
| 1:32.4 | If Kim at the time... her, broke a wine glass, and was screaming. |
| 1:32.6 | If Kim at the time was afraid that Lisa Renner was actually |
| 1:37.4 | going to make physical contact with her, |
| 1:40.0 | she could feel assaulted. |
| 1:41.4 | In court, I think it's important to understand that it's like the |
| 1:44.5 | reasonable person's standards. So it's like there was a threat of imminent harm. |
| 1:49.1 | Kim's testimony would be persuasive, like whether or not she felt it, but then it's the jury deciding whether or not it was |
| 1:55.9 | reasonable for her to feel that way, correct? |
| 1:58.2 | Yeah, and most jurisdictions that I have some familiarity with, the jury instructions would say, |
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