Topic 2:  Torts and Crimes Case Analysis

Read the case.  Answer the following questions in a 5 or more paragraph answer:  What law applies?  What are the most important facts?  How do the facts prove the elements of the law?What is your conclusion about the case based on your analysis?  

On the grounds of a school, Gavin T., a twenty-year-old college student, was eating lunch.  He threw a half-eaten apple toward the outside wall of a classroom some distance away.  The apple sailed through a slowly closing door and struck a professor who was in the room.  The professor was knocked to the floor and lost consciousness for a few minutes.  Gavin was charged with assault by “any means of force likely to produce great bodily injury.”  The court found that he did not intend to hit the professor but only intended to see the apple splatter against the outside wall.  To send a “message” to his classmates that his actions were wrong, however, the court convicted him of the charge.  
                          Should Gavin’s conviction be reversed on appeal?  Why or why not?