Description of Circumstantial Ad Hominem. A Circumstantial ad Hominem is a fallacy in which one attempts to attack a claim by asserting that the person making the claim is making it simply out of self interest.
Report Abuse. Depends. One charge, simple assault, can be up to one year jail if first offense.Can also be probation on top of that, community service, diversion classes ($), fines, even restitution to victim and civil suit.
Domestic assault is punishable by up to 90 days in jail and a fine of up to $1,000. Domestic assault by strangulation or suffocation is punishable by up to three years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000. (Minn.