Second Degree Robbery requires simple robbery plus which extras?

Second Degree Robbery requires simple robbery plus which extras?

• A. Specific intent to cause serious bodily injury
• B. Victim suffered serious bodily injury
• C. Armed with a weapon
• D. Both Specific Intent to Cause Serious Bodily Injury and Victim Suffered Serious Bodily Injury

Answer: (D)

Second-degree robbery is the heightened form of robbery that comes with two added aggravating factors beyond the basic act of taking property with intent to deprive. The law requires that, in addition to the simple robbery, the offender either had the specific intent to cause serious bodily injury and the victim actually suffered that injury, or some other qualifying aggravating circumstance. In this question, the best description of the extras is that the offender must have both the specific intent to cause serious bodily injury and the victim must have actually suffered serious bodily injury. That combination elevates the robbery to the second-degree level. An armed-with-a-weapon enhancement points to a different category (often labeled armed or aggravated robbery) and is not the same pair of extras described here. So the correct understanding is that both elements—specific intent to cause serious bodily injury and actual serious bodily injury to the victim—must be present for second-degree robbery in this framing.

Second-degree robbery is the heightened form of robbery that comes with two added aggravating factors beyond the basic act of taking property with intent to deprive. The law requires that, in addition to the simple robbery, the offender either had the specific intent to cause serious bodily injury and the victim actually suffered that injury, or some other qualifying aggravating circumstance. In this question, the best description of the extras is that the offender must have both the specific intent to cause serious bodily injury and the victim must have actually suffered serious bodily injury. That combination elevates the robbery to the second-degree level. An armed-with-a-weapon enhancement points to a different category (often labeled armed or aggravated robbery) and is not the same pair of extras described here. So the correct understanding is that both elements—specific intent to cause serious bodily injury and actual serious bodily injury to the victim—must be present for second-degree robbery in this framing.