Since the original news reports on Dr. Peter Watts’s conviction for “assault”, it has come out that the charge actually was not assault, and that charge was never offered to the jury. In a comment on a Port Huron Times-Herald’s article’s comment thread, one of the actual jurors writes: Assault was never one of the charges. We were given one option... felony obstruction/resisting. I don't know if the prosecutor dropped the assault prior to the jury convening, but it was never presented to us. and in a different post (quoted by one of Dr. Watts’s friends in his own blog about...