Exam 5: Defenses to Criminal Liability I: Justifications

​Most justifications and excuses are defenses.

​The concept of self-defense today is different than what self-defense has historically meant.Discuss the differences between the two meanings and the reasons for the transformation.

One of the four elements of self-defense requires that the defender didn't start or provoke the attack.What is the name of this element?

The "New Castle Doctrine" laws are transforming the law of self-defense.

​If you use force to protect yourself,your home or property,or the people you care about,you've violated the rule of law.

The case of The Queen v.Dudley and Stephens (1884)involves which defense?

In some jurisdictions,a person must retreat before using defensive deadly force if

​Discuss the differences between justification and excuse defenses.Be sure to give an example of each.

What state passed the first new castle doctrine?

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

Defendants are not criminally liable if their actions were justified under the circumstances.

Case 5.2 Vincent is awoken in the middle of the night by a sound outside his house. He takes a loaded .38 pistol from his nightstand and proceeds downstairs to his kitchen to check on the noise. He encounters a stranger in his kitchen. The stranger hits him in the face knocking him to the floor. As he gets up his see the man running out his kitchen door. Vincent shoots the man through the kitchen door. -Why is Vincent not justified in shooting the man?

Supporters of the castle laws see them as the public reasserting

If attackers completely withdraw from attacks they provoke,they can defend themselves against an attack by their initial victims.This is known as

One purpose of competency hearings is to determine if defendants are still insane.

Most affirmative defenses are perfect defenses.

The defense of consent represents the high value placed on individual in a free society.

A person who was the initial aggressor can gain a lawful right to self-defense if they do which of the following from the incident they started?

​Self-defense is a limited exception to the government on the use of force.

Some self-defense statutes allow you to kill someone you reasonably believe is about to commit a serious felony against you that doesn't threaten either your life or serious bodily injury.