Turn Your Simple Assault Into A Felony! | Rebuttal Podcast

Do all 50 States (and their courts) agree on what IS and IS NOT a deadly weapon? Of course not. Ask the raccoons, honeybees, alligators, plastic chairs, ladles, shoes, bare hands, dogs, toy guns, teeth, and .....eggs. Reb tells you why the difference between simple assault and felony assault with a deadly weapon in the American legal system can get.....very confusing. *** ⁠LINK TO FULL COURT OPINION FROM BARE HANDS SECTION⁠ - U.S. v. Rocha, 598 F.3d 1144 (9th Cir. 2010) (14 pages to explain why attacking someone with your bare hands is not assault with a deadly weapon): https://scholar.google.com/scholar_ca... *** ⁠⁠⁠⁠PREORDER Reb's book: The Book They Throw At You—A Sarcastic Lawyer's Guide* To The Unholy Chaos of Our Legal System, *God No, Not Actual Legal Advice: https://www.simonandschuster.com/book... *** Follow @RebuttalPod on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠! Follow @Rebmasel on ⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠! *** 0:00 - Intro 3:10 - Cowboy Cody, a mule, and a raccoon (KY 2025) 20:30 - Honeybee warfare (MA 2022) 24:51 - A 75-year-old wife throws a chair and a ladle (MA 2022) 28:40 - WHAT IS A "DEADLY WEAPON" THEN...? 34:30 - A Wendy's Frosty and a Florida gator (FL 2016) 39:53 - Don't make me use my...bare hands? (CA 2010) 43:15 - MMA FIGHTERS AND MARTIAL ARTISTS (TX 2013) 46:17 - Biting with HIV/AIDS (NY 1999) 48:16 - DOGS AS DEADLY WEAPONS 50:06 - What if the gun is a toy? (CA 1987) 51:38 - Tasers and pepper spray are deadly weapons??!?!?! 58:18 - Eggs can be bullets, too 59:50 - LIST OF THINGS MOST COMMONLY CONSIDERED "DEADLY WEAPONS" 1:01:42 - Reb's Rebuttal