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Attachment A
Sentencing Guidelines


 
Level of Injury Scale


Level 3 - No Injury, Minor Injury
  Minor injury includes: injuries which require some emergency treatment, such as lacerations, contusions, or abrasions, which have no residual effect; concussions without lasting neurological impact; physical injuries that are painful and obvious but not in any way disabling; and minimal, psychological trauma without lasting effect.
 
Level 4 - Moderate Injury
  Moderate injury includes: injuries which involve extreme physical pain and some discernible disability or loss of function of some body member, organ, or mental faculty, such as fractures, internal injuries or wounds which are serious but not life threatening; and, psychological trauma that results in some temporary or partial disability.
 
Level 6 - Significant Injury
  Significant injury includes: injuries which are characterized by a protracted period of total disability or long term impairment of function, loss of function of any body members, organ, or mental faculty; injuries, not necessarily permanently disabling, which require long term medical care or rehabilitative therapy; injuries which involve a gross disfigurement; and, injuries which result in a permanent residual disability or loss of function to a significant degree.

 


 

 
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