Criminal Law Vocabulary
This occurs when a criminal act is triggered by criminal intent.
What is Criminal Conduct
These are the 3 circumstances for self-help.
What are "the necessity is great," "it exists right now," and "for prevention only?"
In this legal case, prosecutors argued the right to prevent abortions by violating the law because they were defending the right of unborn children to live.
What is State v. Aguillard of 1990?
This legislation intended to expand the right to use deadly force in self-defense.
What is the Castle Doctrine?
The core of this defense is the necessity to prevent imminent danger.
What is the choice-of-evils defense?
This type of defense allows a defendant to claim they are not responsible for their actions, although they know their actions were wrong.
What is Excuse
These are the 4 elements of self-defense.
What is the nonaggressor, necessity, proportionality, and reasonable belief?
The law must consider this to make some allowance.
What is human nature?
The first castle law doctrine was passed in this state in 2005.
What is Florida?
The choice-of-evils defense is also referred to as this.
What is the general defense of necessity?
These special hearings are to determine if a defendant is still insane.
What is Competency hearings.
An attacker may defend themselves against an attack after withdrawing from an attack in which they provoked under this exception.
What is the withdrawal exception?
These individuals must have the right to defend themselves before someone else may claim the defense.
Who are others?
She was the first woman president of the National Rifle Association.
Who is Marion Hammer?
This jurist declared that what "is not otherwise lawful, necessity makes lawful."
Who is Bracton?
This person provokes an attack on another individual.
What is the initial aggressor?
The most widely publicized self-defense cases involve individuals who need to do this.
What is kill to save their own lives?
This defense limits the use of force or violence in protection of others to situations where the person attacked would have been justified in using force or violence to protect himself.
What is defense of others?
This campaign strongly opposes the new castle laws.
What is The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence?
This code lists "right" choices as life, health, and safety over property.
What is the Model Penal Code?
This area immediately surrounds a home.
What is Curtilage?
A person must retreat is they believe these things.
What is the belief that they are in danger of death or serious bodily harm, and that backing off will not unreasonably put them in danger of death or serious bodily harm?
Many states have abandoned this relationship requirement altogether.
What is special?
This New Port Richie prostitute kill the man who was threatening to kill her and himself.
Who is Jacqueline Galas?
Dispensing drugs without prescriptions in an emergency is considered this type of choice.
What is right?