Mulva;958640 wrote:But maybe not.
And if drums of war is correct, there still would need to be intent. Unless you want to argue that he was acting recklessly by running onto the football field as a football player with his football teammates prior to a football game, and that the band member was seriously injured.
Hypothetically...
One could actually argue a different set of facts... such as the jumping with no ability to control himself (as some people here defending him have said) around while wearing essentially what is armor and not paying attention if there are people in front while there are clearly band members not wearing the gear. This would be a substantial and unjustifiable rik that he was aware of. One could point to his fellow teammates paying attention and clearly making efforts to avoid the band members to contrast the behavior. But of course in the alternative one could also argue intentional as in he did have control of his actions and purposefully or knowingly jumped. Purposefully it would have been his conscious object (this would be hard to show) and would just need to argue the circumstances. However, knowingly just means he was aware that such a result is practically certain. In the way he was jumping in that gear towards a person with not gear, it could be argued he would know it's practically certain he would hit the person. To the extent of the damage he might cause, that's irrelevant.
Also, some jurisdictions do have negligent assault. I just did a brief search and found out that Ohio does. But I don't believe it would pertain to this situation as it seemingly requires a deadly weapon or a dangerous ordinance.
But all of that is besides the point. I was merely trying to point out that what some people are saying here as "intentional" as in his conscious objective as most people take the word to mean is not the only mental state required for assault. I'm not saying this would work. I'm just saying there is possibly more than one way to get it to work.