Criminal Defenses

Question 1

Entrapment

Answer 1

Officer convinced you to do something you wouldn’t usually do
Objective = reasonable person standard
Subjective = personal can look at criminal history

Question 2

Self-defense

Answer 2

Same level of force as aggressor
Must fear imminent harm
Duty to retreat before using force

Question 3

Immanency

Answer 3

Subjective = what that person believed
Objective = what a reasonable person believed

Question 4

Exceptions

Answer 4

Castle doctrine = no duty to retreat to use deadly force
Stand your ground laws

Question 5

Battered women syndrome

Answer 5

Long term abuse and kill their abuser
Affirmative defense

Question 6

Intoxication

Answer 6

Voluntary = no defense
Involuntary = defense

Question 7

Insanity

Answer 7

Looked at at the time of the incident
M’Naughten
Irresistible impulse

Question 8

M’Naughten

Answer 8

Don’t know the nature and quality of their actions

Question 9

Irresistible impulse

Answer 9

Can not control themselves

Question 10

Competency

Answer 10

Does not understand proceedings and parties
Cannot assist in their defense
Looked at at time of trial

Question 11

Infancy

Answer 11

Cannot form intent
No mens rea