Dorchester Democrat Sentenced to 6 months in assault case A 37 year old state representative, Carlos Henriquez, was sentenced to six months in prison after a jury had convicted him of punching a woman in the chest after she had refused to have sex with him. The district judge; Michele Hogan, said, “when a woman tells you she doesn’t want to have sex, that means she does not want to have sex.” Hogan’s sentence for Henriquez was two and a half years, in the house of correction, yet he ordered Henriquez to serve only 6 months of the sentence that Henriquez was given. However; Middlesex prosecutors had asked that Henriquez be ordered to serve 1 year of a 2 and a half year sentence, which would be the maximum for assault and battery. Henriquez’s lawyer, Stephanie Soriano-Mills, asked Hogan for Henriquez’s sentence to be probation and to acquit on some of the charges. Stephanie Soriano-Mills had called the sentence harsh. In other words, this case has to do with assault and battery. The meaning of battery is to touch someone unlawfully. The definition of assault is the attempt to try to commit battery. Assault as a tort and a crime are different. A victim of a tort must know that the person that had committed the tort, meant to commit harm. Trying to commit harm is necessary when trying to establish fear. Assault and battery are usually committed together. You cannot commit battery without committing assault. On the other hand, assault can be committed without committing battery. The reason why battery cannot be committed without assault is because that when you are trying to commit battery you are right now committing assault. Whether or not you are using some kind of weapon or just making some type of physical movement, for if it results in any kind of fear it is considered assault. The reason why assault is able to be committed without battery