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Crim Law 11

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Entrapment   Defendant admits committing a crime but claims that he/she was induced, or persuaded to commit the crime by a law enforcement officer  
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DNA   Biological evidence  
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Duress   A person does something as a result of coercion or a threat of immediate danger to life or personal safety  
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Necessity   Compelled to react to a situation that is unavoidable in order to protect life  
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Only used in 1% of Criminal Cases   Insanity plea  
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In what situations is an individual not held responsible for a criminal act they committed?   Infancy-under specified age, intoxicated, insane, entrapment, duress, necessity  
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Type of plea successful only in 1 of 4 cases   Pleading insanity  
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Under 7   Infancy exception, would go to juvenile facility & held until 18 yrs. old  
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Ways to show someone is insane   1.Can't tell right from wrong,2.Only works if defendant is insane when crime was committed,3.defense must prove evidense of mental disease,4. Psychiatrists testimony for both sides  
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Intoxication   Too drunk or high on drugs, they didn't know what they were doing  
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When is a crime excusible or justifiable?   1.In self defense,2.defense of property,3.defense of others  
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Infancy   Those under a certain age are incapable of crime in the eyes of the law  
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Insane   Based on premise that defendant can not be held responsible for their actions/shouldn't be punished like ordinary criminals  
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Alibi   Evidence defendant was somewhere else at time of crime  
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Exclusionary rule   A legal rule that generally prohibits the use of illegally obtained evidence against the defendant at trial  
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Affidavit   Written statement of facts sworn to or made under oath before someone authorized to administer an oath  
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Entrapment   Act by law enforcement officers to persuade a person to commit a crime that they would not otherwise commit  
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Arrest   Taking of a person into custody  
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Necessity   Reaction to a situation that is unavoidable in order to protect life  
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Consent   Voluntary agreement to questioning, person's permission to search  
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Duress   Act as a result of coercion  
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Motive   Reason a person commits a crime  
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Elements   Factors that make an act a crime  
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