Defenses
What are special hearings to determine if defendants are still insane?
What is a Competency hearing?
What is a mental disorder that develops in victims of domestic violence as a result of serious, long-term abuse?
What is the Battered Woman’s Syndrome?
What is the legal term that refers to a mental disease or defect that impairs the reason and/or will control actions?
What is Insanity?
What are the two types of tests for entrapment?
What is subjective and objective?
What is it called when individuals make an agreement to commit crimes?
What is criminal conspiracy?
What are the four elements that consist of self-defense?
What are the Non-aggressor, Necessity, Proportionality, and Reasonable belief?
What legal justification allows individuals to use reasonable force in specific cases, deadly force to protect their dwelling, land, or belongings from unlawful interference, trespass, or destruction?
What is the Defense of Home and Property?
What is a noncriminal proceeding in which courts have the power to decide if a defendant who was insane when they committed their crimes is still insane?
What is the Civil commitment?
What is an excuse that argues government agents got people to commit crimes they wouldn’t otherwise commit?
What is entrapment?
What is it called when an individual tries to convince someone else to commit a crime?
What is criminal solicitation?
What defenses are there when a defendant admits what they did was wrong, but they claim that, under the circumstances, they weren’t responsible for what they did?
What is the Excuse defenses?
What legal justification allows a person to use reasonable proportionate force to protect a third party from an immediate threat of unlawful force?
What is the Defense of others?
What is it called when a defendant suffers a defect of reason caused by a disease of the mind, and consequently, at the time of the act, didn’t know what they were doing or that the act was wrong?
What is the right-wrong test?
What is it called when juvenile court judges use their discretion to transfer a juvenile to adult criminal court?
What is a judicial waiver?
What is a single statute that applies to the attempt to commit any crime in the state’s criminal code?
What is general attempt statute?
What defenses are there when a defendant admits that they are responsible for their acts but claims that, under the circumstances, what they did was right?
What is the Justification defenses?
What defense justifies the choice to commit a lesser crime to avoid the harm of a greater crime?
What is the Choice-of-evils defense?
True or False: Mental disease refers to mental retardation or brain damage severe enough to make it impossible to know what you’re doing, or if you know, you don’t know that it’s wrong?
False
What is it called when the juvenile court gives up its jurisdiction over the case and turns it over to the adult criminal court?
What is the waiver to adult criminal court?
__________________ establishes when you can be criminally liable for someone else’s conduct. It applies criminal liability to accomplices and accessories.
What is Complicity?
What is necessary to hold an individual accountable for the crimes they commit?
What is Criminal conduct?
What is the justification that competent adults voluntarily consented to crimes against themselves and knew what they were consenting to?
What is the Defense of consent?
What test acts that are the “products” of mental disease or defect excuse criminal liability?
What is the product-of-mental-illness test?
What is it called when a defendant uses the excuse that they were forced to do what they did?
What is a defense of duress?
What is the idea that when you choose to participate in crime, you forfeit your right to be treated as an individual?
What is forfeited personal identity theory?