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Chapter 3,4,5 test Criminal Justice
Terms in this set (86)
Duress Generally, this is where a person has been threatened for their life to do something illegal; however, you must try to escape before the court will probably accept this defense.
Intoxication "The law does not relieve a...
Chapter 3,4,5 test Criminal Justice
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Terms in this set (86)
Generally, this is where a person has been threatened for their life to do something
Duress illegal; however, you must try to escape before the court will probably accept this
defense.
"The law does not relieve an individual of responsibility for acts performed while
voluntarily intoxicated; however..it can be used as a defense, as when a person has
been tricked into consuming a substance without knowing that it may cause
Intoxication intoxication" (Cole & Smith, p. 78).
It can be used as a mitigating factor in a crime.
"States may enact laws that prevent the use of an intoxication defense" (Cole & Smith, p.
78).
A father buying his son "hard lemonade" not knowing that the lemonade contained
Mistake
alcohol. Of course, proving a mistake of fact is the burden of the defendant.
This is different from self-defense in that there is no direct threat of being harmed; you
feel that if you don't act, then another person may die.
Necessity
Running a red light or stop sign if you have a shooting victim in the backseat of your
vehicle.
Not a set of laws but a suggested prototype for criminal laws, intended to guide states
American Law Institute Rule
in bringing their systems up to date and making them more uniform
"Under this rule, the accused is not criminally responsible 'if an unlawful act is the
Durham Rule
product of mental disease or mental defect" (Cole & Smith, p. 79).
"This test excuses a defendant when a mental disease was controlling their behavior
irresistible impulse test
even though they know that what they were doing was wrong" (Cole & Smith, p. 79)
"Right-from-wrong-test"— "At the time of the committing of the act, the party accused
was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know
M'Naghten Rule
the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or if he did know it that he did not know
he was doing what was wrong" (Cole & Smith, p. 78-79).
(GBMI) Intended as a compromise between acquitting a mentally disordered defendant
Guilty but Mentally Ill as NGRI and finding that defendant guilty
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