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Torts are civil, as opposed to criminal, wrongs. Wrongs can be as varied and diverse, as unique and unusual, as a person’s thoughts and actions.
A crime is a different kind of insult. It is an insult against the state rather than against some other particular person. It is tried in the criminal courts, which are very different than civil courts. Criminal cases have their own rules of procedure, a different burden of proof, and are geared towards making sure that an innocent person is not convicted. A tort and a crime may be the result of the same trauma (a hit, an injury, a blow). Our law, based on Common-law traditions, requires separate trials in separate courts.
Crimes are statutory in nature. Crimes generally require criminal intent to commit a crime. There are some crimes such as statutory rape that are crimes simply because the Legislature says they are. The age of consent in Alabama is 16 years of age and it doesn’t matter if her mother said she was 25 years old and had a birth certificate to prove it. I do imagine the court would take that into consideration at sentencing though. Reach out to a personal injury lawyer.
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