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Most self-defense statutes require the belief in imminent danger to be honest and

Legal (“proximate”) cause is a subjective question of fairness that appeals to the jury’s sense of

What are some of the reasons that the American Law Institute created the Model Penal Code?​

Under the McNaughtan test of insanity, the defendant is legally insane at the time of the crime if, because of a mental disease or defect, he did not know that what he was doing was wrong or did not know

Status can arise in two ways: (1) it can result from a prior voluntary act or (2)

Vicarious liability can apply to​

Defendants who receive a “not guilty by reason of insanity” verdict are

What is the category of crimes that are punishable by death or confinement in the state’s prison for one year to life without parole? 

To be a defense to attempt, the abandonment of the attempt must be

The objective test of entrapment focuses on