Sometimes a broken nose isn't serious. Other times it requires expensive surgical correction.
Sometimes a broken nose isn't serious. Other times it requires expensive surgical correction.
Plus, your son is an adult. Is HE willing to cooperate with the police? Does he want to speak to the police? It is not your place to report this to the police, it is his.
- Carl
Regardless how your son see a doctor asap,if he wants to talk to the police,the quicker the better. There allowed to use reasonable force,4 people beating down 1 person is not reasonable force,it might even be considered gang assault b.c there was 4 against 1.
This is one of those things that you have to talk to an attorney, it is really hard for people to give you advise without ALL the facts. When you talk to the attorney, your son needs to be 100% honest with him/her to get accurate advice. Sometimes, we have a tendency to tell other people "our side" that makes us look "good" and the other side look "bad." And think about ALL the consequences of the action before you take it. I think you need to report it to the police and let them take care of it, but keep in mind that they could report something entirely different to the police about what happened. You need to be 100% honest with YOUR attorney because if your son was also not an entirely "innocent" person in the fight, he might be charged with something as well, and only he/she can tell you that.
The four, if you can prove that they did it (I'm not doubting your son's word, I'm just telling you what the law requires), will be punished more than your son - even if they tried to use a self-defense defense as 4 on 1 is NOT going to be seen as self defense, but if they can demonstrate that your son was an active participant, he might be charged with assault as well.
My advice would be to go to the hospital and take them to Civil court for medical expenses because even if your son was a party to the fight, he can still claim civil damages, no matter who "started" the fight (that's why convicted prisoners sometimes "sue"). But keep in mind that they can also take you to civil court to sue for their "damages" (although I'll doubt there is any).