AWDWIK & AWDWIKISI: What Do They Mean?

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[Flight-ER-Doc]

Err....Assault with Deadly Weapon with Intent to kill?

[Eugene Volokh]

Correct! That's some North Carolina legalese for you. And AWDWIKISI?

[John F. Carr]

...Inflicting Severe Injury.

[Flight-ER-Doc]

Seems kind of redundant, doesn't it?

[Eugene Volokh]

John F. Carr: Correct.

Flight-ER-Doc: The AWDW focuses on the weapon, IK on the purpose, and the ISI on the actual harm caused. I take it that shooting at someone but missing, for instance, would be AWDWIK but not AWDWIKISI.

[Flight-ER-Doc]

Oh, well... I rarely miss 🙂

[Doug Huffman]

Professor Volokh has separated us gun nuts from the chaff. Nuts have shells, I suppose, rather than chaff.

[Dr-P]

similar to the classic difference between assault and battery
- where assault is the attemot or threat
- battery is the actual attack

For example, if a person threatens to strike a victim with his or her fist and swings and misses, he or she could be charged with a simple assault. If the person actually strikes the victim with his or her fist and causes a bruise, he or she has committed a battery.

[Brett Bellmore]

Actually, isn't it battery if you simply lay your hand on somebody against their will, regardless of whether it causes any injury?

[John F. Carr]

That is the law in Massachusetts. An assault and battery is one of

1. Recklessly causing bodily injury.
2. Intentionally touching a person in a way that is likely to cause bodily harm.
3. Intentionally touching in an offensive (i.e. nonconsensual) manner.

Consent is not a defense to touching which is likely to cause bodily harm. This hit the news in the year 2000 when Massachusetts police raided an S&M party, the so-called "Paddleboro" case. The parties managed to get the warrant invalidated, avoiding an embarrassing trial for all sides.

[SRG]

To this day I recall the classic English definition of assault, "to cause the apprehension of immediate unlawful violence". Hence if you bash someone over the head from behind it's not assault. 🙂

[Life of Brian]

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[Frank Drackman]

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[Kleppe]

These are both fairly common acronyms in the violent criminal deep web, offering helpful hints to future felons.

AWDWIK: Among Whom Does Whisky Improve Kidnapping?

AWDWIKISI: Always Write Down Whom I Kill In Serial Incidents.

[Frank Drackman]

Love the acronyms, some areas of Medicine you could go all day speaking only of PTCA's, STEMI's, AAA's,
And in med school you had to know exactly what they stood for or risk Pubic humiliation, be surprised how many Gastroenterologists can't tell you what "ERCP" means, (they'll bill the B-jesus out of you though)
One of my favorites, was a shorty but goody, definitely not "Woke" or "PC"
a diagnosis occasionally rendered to young Marines,

"MPH"

Frank "got a TAH-BSO at 8, an ACD at 10, and a TSRH at 1"

[Kleppe]

The military would give the medical field a run for its money with acronyms. Their use is so uniquitous that even four letter acronyms are commonly reused. FOUO - For Official Use Only, or Fire Of Unknown Origin?