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Chapters 5 - -----

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Evidence and arguments offered by a defendant or an attorney to show why a defendant shouldn't be held liable for a criminal charge   Defense  
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Necessity, Self-Defense, Defense of Others, Defense of home and property, Resisting Unlawful Arrest, Consent   Justification Defense  
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Claims that it was necessary to commit some unlawful act in order to prevent greater harm   Necessity  
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The harm sought to avoid outweighs the danger of the prohibited conduct   Necessity  
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No reasonable alternative   Necessity  
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Ceased to engage in the prohibited conduct as soon as the danger passed   Necessity  
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Did not create the danger south to avoid   Necessity  
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Harm inflicted on another was necessary   Self-Defense  
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Amount of defensive for must be proportional to the amount of offensive force   Self-Defense  
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Unlawfulness: of the other person's act   Key point in using deadly force in self defense  
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Necessity: Force must be necessary for protection from another   Key point in using deadly force in self defense  
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Reasonable: only a reasonable amount of force may be used   Key point in using deadly force in self defense  
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Path of Retreat   Self-Defense  
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If a person being defended has the right to defend themselves, the party who went to his aid is protected   Defense of Others  
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Must believe that the person they are aiding would be justified in using force to defend themselves   Defense of Others  
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Must believe that the person they are aiding is unable to adequately defend themselves, and therefore their intervention is necessary   Defense of Others  
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If a person being defended has the right to defend themselves, the party who went to his aid is protected   Alter Ego Rule  
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Third party in Defense of Others   "...one who goes to the aid of a third person does so at his own peril"  
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May use reasonable non deadly force   Defense of Home and Property  
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Preservation of human life outweighs the value of property   Defense of Home and Property  
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Extends to hotels, vessels, rented rooms, house boats   Defense of Home and Property  
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"Castle Exception"   Defense of Home and Property  
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Most states forbid deadly force in this defense   Defense of Property  
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Few property items are vital to survival   Reason for forbidding deadly force  
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Most items of value are insured   Reason for forbidding deadly force  
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LE is usually readily available for assistance   Reason for forbidding deadly force  
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Cannot set "booby traps" or "spring guns" in this defense   Defense of Property  
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A defense that states that the individual who is the recipient of an injury or is claiming to be suffering an injury   Consent  
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Appeal a higher power to determine guilt   Trial by Ordeal  
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Hot iron, floating, boiling water tests..   Trail by Ordeal  
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Fleeing Felon Rule   Tennessee vs. Garner  
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ONLY when a suspect is thought to represent a threat of injury/death to the officer or public (probable cause)   Tennessee vs. Garner  
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Force is needed for arrest purposes   Tennessee vs. Garner  
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Defense of duress, Intoxication, Mistake, Age, Entrapment, Syndrome, or Mental Incompetency/Insanity are type of..   Excuses Defenses  
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The complaint or charge are true and correct, however, there is a valid excuse that an individual had the right to engage in the conduct in question   Excuses Defense  
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"Yes I did it -- but I had a good reason"   Excuses Defense  
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Personal condition/circumstance is why the defendant is not liable   Excuses Defense  
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Defendant must show that there was a reasonable fear of death that was immediate fear of future harm or death   Duress  
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Unlawful threat of Coercion   Duress  
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Acting unlawfully because of some outside force where you would otherwise not engage in those types of behaviors   Duress  
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Must convince trier of fact that intoxication was involuntary - either tricked, forced, or unaware   Involuntary Intoxication  
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Must show that the intoxication was so great as to remove ability to form specific intent   Involuntary Intoxication  
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Misunderstanding/misinterpreting of the law`   Mistake Law  
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Just because you didn't know the law isn't an excuse   Mistake Law  
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That law needs to be made reasonably well known   Mistake Law  
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Misunderstanding, misinterpreting, or forgetting of a fact that pertains to the situation   Mistake Fact  
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If the facts had been presented the likelihood of something criminal would not have taken place   Mistake of Fact  
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Not held criminally responsible due to the age of the defendant   Infancy Defense  
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A person who has not yet reached the age of majority   Infancy Defense  
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Children under the age of 7 are not criminally responsible   Excuse: Age  
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Do not have the mental capacity to formulate intent   Excuse: Age  
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This cannot be overcome by evidence to the contrary   Excuse: Age  
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Rebut-table Presumption for children 7-14 years old   Excuse: Age  
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This can be overcome with evidence   7-14 years of age  
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7 years old   Age of Reason  
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Offense which is only illegal due to the age of the offender   Status Offenses  
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Offenses committed by a juvenile which is also illegal for adults   Delinquent Offenses  
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Transfer of a juvenile case to an adult court   Judicial Waiver  
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A defense that is confirmed upon, or substantially enhanced by the acceptability of a syndrome   Excuse: Syndrome Based  
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Signs and symptoms presenting a clinical picture of a disease or disorder   Syndrome  
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Legally these syndromes are clinically views as diseases or disorders   Other Syndromes on the rise  
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Prolonged beatings and abuses   Batter Women's Syndrome  
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Included psychological abuse   Batter Women's Syndrome  
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Evolves into a sense of "learned helplessness"   Battered Women's Syndrome  
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Inability to leave, constant fear, instant submissiveness, imminent danger for children other family members   Battered Women's Syndrome  
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This is a legal issue, and had no medical value   Insanity  
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Developed in order to aid the court in dealing with certain individuals   Insanity  
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Claims mental illness or diminished capacity   Insanity  
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Not guilty at the time of the crime if the defendant didn't know what they were doing   M'Naughten Rule  
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Not guilty at the time of the crime if the defendant didn't know that the behavior was wrong   M'Naughten Rule  
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States a person isn't criminally/legally responsible for behaviors if actions were due to mental defect   Durham Rule  
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Courts us array of psychiatric specialists to testify about mental state   Durham Rule  
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Successful defense requires jury to see behavior is due to mental deficiencies   Durham Rule  
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The Model Penal Code Insanity Test is also known as:   The Substantial Capacity Test  
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This was developed by the American Law Institute   The Substantial Capacity Test  
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Accuses is not responsible for actions if at the time of the act, as a result of a mental disease or defect, he lacks the substantial capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of the act and to conform their conduct to the law   The Substantial Capacity Test  
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The defendant is proven guilty of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt   Guilty but Mentally Ill  
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The defendant was found to be mentally ill at the time of the offense   Guilty but Mentally Ill  
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The defendant is found not legally insane at time of offense   Guilty but Mentally Ill  
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Defense based on a claim that a mental condition may be insufficient to exonerate the defendant of guilt but that may be relevant to specific mental elements of crime   Diminished Capacity  
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Specifically, that the defendant lacked the mental capacity to form mens rea needed for conviction   Diminished Capacity  
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Places burden on the jury to determine if the defendant can be justly held responsible for their actions   Brawner's Rule  
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The killing of one human being another human being   Murder  
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An intentional homicide committed out of necessity is considered justifiable   English Common Law  
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Justifiable, Excusable, or Sufficiently provoted   Does not qualify as murder  
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Initially, the only punishment for murder was...   Death  
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Became designated by different degrees in order to vary the punishments and avoid the death penalty in certain cases   Murder  
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Murder is the killing of any person with ...   Malice Aforethought  
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A felony, an unlawful killing, and intent are characteristics of...   Murder  
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Intentional Homicide   Type of Murder  
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Intent to do serious bodily injury where death results with no intent to kill   Type of Murder  
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Depraved Heart Murder   Type of Murder  
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Felony Murder   Type of Murder  
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Now defined as the irreversible cessation of all brain function   Death  
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Conviction may occur with a confession and corroborating evidence   Murder Conviction  
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Can someone be charged with murder without a body   Yes  
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Conviction can still occur with circumstantial evidnce   Murder Conviction  
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The unlawful killing of a being without malice   Manslaughter  
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"Less than Murder"   Manslaughter  
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Two Categories: Voluntary and Involuntary   Manslaughter  
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No malice or lawful justification   Voluntary Manslaughter  
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Occurs due to negligence or recklessness   Involuntary Manslaughter  
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Unintentional Killing   Involuntary Manslaughter  
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Lacks malicious aforethought   Manslaughter  
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Justifiable, excusable, carriers no criminal liability, and is permitted under the law   Perfect Self Defense  
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Body of Crime   Corpus Delicti  
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An attempt to commit Battery in which no actual physical battery or injury results   Assult  
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The successful attempt to cause unlawful physical harm   Battery  
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Must have this to have battery, but not vise versa   Assult  
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Use of a weapon, infliction of serious injury, or disparity in size and age   Assault of Battery: High and Aggravated Nature  
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Most of these cases require the intentional injury of a person   Assault of Battery: High and Aggravated Nature  
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Disablement of normal functioning of the human body   Mayhem  
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Malicious or willful permanent disfiguration   Mayhem  
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Intentionally placing or attempting to place another person in fear or imminent serious physical danger   Menacing  
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