Evidence suggestive of a serious injury is not necessarily inadmissible in sentencing for intentionally causing injury simpliciter; such evidence may be admissible to properly delimit the nature and extent of the injury. The extent of injury actually caused is discrete from the extent of injury the offender intended to cause. Where the injury inflicted may satisfy the definition of serious injury but the charge is for injury simpliciter, it is preferable for the sentencing judge to expressly note the distinction.
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