Chapter 14 Defenses
Index
- Section 14.1 Introduction
- Section 14.2 Voluntary Act
- Section 14.3 Culpable Mental State Usually Required
- Section 14.4 Types of Culpable Mental States
- Section 14.5 Responsibility for the Conduct of Another
- Section 14.6 Corporations
- Section 14.7 Negating Culpable Mental State
- Section 14.8 Mental Disease or Defect Excluding Responsibility
- Section 14.9 Involuntary Intoxication or Drug Stupor
- Section 14.10 Infancy
- Section 14.11 Amnesia
- Section 14.12 Accident, Mistake, or Inadvertence
- Section 14.13 Entrapment
- Section 14.14 Outrageous Government Conduct
- Section 14.15 Duress, Coercion, or Compulsion
- Section 14.16 Renunciation, Abandonment, or Withdrawal
- Section 14.17 Not All Prohibited or Illegal Acts Are Crimes
- Section 14.18 Act of God
- Section 14.19 Consent or Condonation
- Section 14.20 Statute Repealed or Declared Unconstitutional
- Section 14.21 Public Duty or Legal Authorization
- Section 14.22 Agent
- Section 14.23 Lack of Proper Venue or Jurisdiction
- Section 14.24 Statute of Limitations
- Section 14.25 Double Jeopardy
- Section 14.26 Illegal Arrest
- Section 14.27 Legislative Immunity
- Section 14.28 Diplomatic Immunity
- Section 14.29 Judicial, Police, and Prosecutor’s Immunity
- Section 14.30 Executive Immunity
- Section 14.31 Voter’s Immunity
- Section 14.32 Federal Officers
- Section 14.33 Immunity From Prosecution
- Section 14.34 Pardon or Amnesty
- Section 14.35 Necessity
- Section 14.36 Justification
- Section 14.37 Insufficient Evidence
- Section 14.38 Lack of Knowledge, Intent, Purpose, or Culpable Mental State
- Section 14.39 Alibi
- Section 14.40 Good Character
- Section 14.41 “Mitigating” Tactics
- Section 14.42 Excluding Evidence
- Section 14.43 Other Trial Tactics
- Section 14.44 Lesser Offense
- Section 14.45 Diminished Responsibility
- Section 14.46 Jury Nullification
- Section 14.47 Incompetence to Stand Trial
- Section 14.48 Alternatives to Criminal Prosecution
- Section 14.49 Building a Record
- Section 14.50 Justifiable Homicide
- Section 14.51 Self-Defense and Defense of Another
- Section 14.52 Public Duty
- Section 14.53 Necessity
- Section 14.54 Maintenance of Another’s Welfare
- Section 14.55 Defense of Premises
- Section 14.56 Defense of Property
- Section 14.57 Justifiable Homicide Decisions
- Section 14.58 Excusable Homicide
- Section 14.59 Resisting an Unlawful Arrest
- Section 14.60 Death Penalty Cases
- Section 14.61 Factual Defenses
- Section 14.62 Other Defenses to Assaults
- Section 14.63 Burglary
- Section 14.64 Possession of Burglar’s Tools
- Section 14.65 Arson
- Section 14.66 Robbery
- Section 14.67 Stealing
- Section 14.68 Receiving Stolen Property
- Section 14.69 Tampering
- Section 14.70 Claim of Right
- Section 14.71 Forgery
- Section 14.72 Checks
- Section 14.73 Introduction
- Section 14.74 Marriage Defense
- Section 14.75 Sex Offenses: Elements and Punishments
- Section 14.76 Penetration
- Section 14.77 Consent
- Section 14.78 Culpable Mental State
- Section 14.79 Mistake as to Age
- Section 14.80 Evidence Issues
- Section 14.81 Incest
- Section 14.82 Related Offenses
- Section 14.83 Entrapment
- Section 14.84 “Mere Conduit” Defense
- Section 14.85 “Procuring Agent” Defense
- Section 14.86 Lack of Knowledge or Intent
- Section 14.87 Illegal Search and Seizure
- Section 14.88 Possession Defenses
- Section 14.89 Joint Possession
- Section 14.90 Control of Premises
- Section 14.91 Fleeting Possession
- Section 14.92 Lawful Possession
- Section 14.93 Possession by Consumption
- Section 14.94 Technical Defenses
- Section 14.95 Species Defense
- Section 14.96 Unusable Trace
- Section 14.97 Constitutional Attacks
- Section 14.98 “Chemistry” or Identification Defense
- Section 14.99 Credibility of Agent or Informer
- Section 14.100 Outrageous Government Conduct
- Section 14.101 Drug Addiction—Necessity, Coercion, or Compulsion
- Section 14.102 Statutory Exceptions
- Section 14.103 Cooperation
- Section 14.104 Other Offenses
- Section 14.105 Perjury
- Section 14.106 Truth Is a Defense
- Section 14.107 Two Witness Rule
- Section 14.108 Materiality
- Section 14.109 Acquittal on Underlying Charge Is No Defense
- Section 14.110 Retraction
- Section 14.111 Related Offenses
- Section 14.112 Subornation
- Section 14.113 Escape
- Section 14.114 Unlawfully Confined
- Section 14.115 Necessity
- Section 14.116 Double Jeopardy
- Section 14.117 Related Offenses
- Section 14.118 Pornography
- Section 14.119 Accessory After the Fact
- Section 14.120 Disorderly Conduct, Breaches of the Peace, Etc.
- Section 14.121 Weapons Offenses
- Section 14.122 Nonsupport of Spouse or Child
- Section 14.123 Conspiracy
- Section 14.124 Attempt
- Section 14.125 Matters That Are Not Generally Defenses
- Section 14.126 When and How Defenses Should Be Raised
- Section 14.127 Caveats