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Assault or Battery

What the decided record shows for this issue, computed from public DOHA hearing-level decisions. Descriptive history, not a prediction.

Does assault or battery affect a security clearance?

Assault or Battery is an issue decided under Guideline J, Criminal Conduct. In the decided DOHA record it appears in 596 hearing-level cases, and 22% of the 596 decided ended with access granted (134 granted, 462 denied). The mitigating conditions judges credited most often, and example decisions either way, are below.

Basis: 596 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.

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Decided cases

596

hearing-level decisions raising this issue

Granted

22%

134 granted · 462 denied or revoked

Official mitigating conditions cited

The formal mitigating conditions the case profiles identified on this issue, in cases that were granted and in cases that were denied. Each is shown with its paragraph number and a plain name. Read what each condition says.

  • ¶ 32(a) · So much time has passed, or the circumstances were so unusual

    In granted cases
    72
    In denied cases
    32

  • ¶ 32(d) · Successful rehabilitation shown

    In granted cases
    47
    In denied cases
    17

  • ¶ 32(c) · No reliable evidence that the person committed the offense

    In granted cases
    28
    In denied cases
    16

  • ¶ 32(b) · The person acted under pressure that is unlikely to recur

    In granted cases
    21
    In denied cases
    10

Circumstances credited in granted cases

The specific circumstances the judge expressly credited among the granted cases on this issue where that detail was extracted.
  • rehabilitation evidence · credited in 15 granted cases
  • acknowledgment and remorse · credited in 10 granted cases
  • no subsequent offenses · credited in 8 granted cases
  • passage of time · credited in 4 granted cases
  • explanation of omission credible · credited in 2 granted cases

Recent decided examples

  • ISCR Case No. 24-00247Granted2026

    Applicant, a defense contractor manager with prior Army service, faced SOR allegations under Guidelines J, I, G, E, and D arising from multiple alcohol-related arrests, a cocaine incident, domestic vi…

  • ISCR Case No. 24-00955Granted2026

    The applicant in this case was a 46-year-old defense contractor manager who sought national security eligibility after previously holding a security clearance that was revoked in 2018. The Department …

  • ISCR Case No. 24-01733Denied2026

    Applicant, a defense contractor employee, was denied eligibility for a security clearance after the judge found against him on Guideline J and Guideline E. The record showed juvenile attempted murder,…

  • ISCR Case No. 25-01239Denied2026

    Applicant, a pro se written record case, was denied eligibility for access to classified information. The Judge found that Applicant had been convicted in March 2000 of two counts of aggravated assaul…

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Related issues under Guideline J

How these numbers are measured

Scope: decided hearing-level cases whose per-allegation profile records this issue, matched to the same issue value the search filters use, so a count here and a filtered search always agree. A case raising several issues counts under each one. The mitigating conditions and the credited circumstances below were extracted for a subset of the record, so both are counts of cases rather than rates. Pages exist only for issues with at least 25 decided cases, and † marks any split built on fewer than 20.

Reading the statistics

  • Granted = access granted or continued; Denied = denied or revoked.
  • Grant rate = granted ÷ (granted + denied).
  • † marks figures based on fewer than 20 cases, too few to be reliable.
  • Hovering any rate shows its statistical range (a 95% confidence interval).
  • Figures are descriptive counts over decided, public DOHA ISCR decisions, never predictions or assessments of any pending case.

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