_____ is known as a defense alleging that the time in which to prosecute certain crimes has elapsed. There is no statute of limitations for the crime of murder.
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Statute of limitations
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_____ is defined as some jurisdictions allow a person to use deadly force if threatened in a place where they have a legal right to be
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Stand your ground
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_____ is a complete defense based on the use of reasonable force to repel a physical attack
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Self-defense
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Is rebuttable presumption can overcome conclusion children ages 8–14 have no mens rea?
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True
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_____ is known as a break from reality suffered by some mentally ill offenders
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Psychosis
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_____ is defined as the law assumes it is better to retreat than use deadly force; generally inapplicable to home invasions
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“No retreat” doctrine
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_____ is a defense created by having to choose the lesser of two evils
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Necessity
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Is m’Naghten test the defendant is insane if, at the time he committed the crime, he suffered from a mental defect that rendered him unable to understand the difference between right and wrong or to be unable to appreciate the criminality of his conduct?
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True
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_____ is known as an erroneous legal conclusion arrived at by a party who knows all the facts
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Mistake of law
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_____ is defined as the erroneous belief in certain facts that leads the person to act (or fail to act) accordingly
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Mistake of fact
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_____ is a mental disorder recognized by the American Psychological Association and listed in the DSM-V
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Mental disease
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Is mental defect a mental disorder that impairs the way the brain processes information?
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True
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_____ is known as a mental disease or defect that prevents an offender from being able to resist the strong sudden urge to commit a criminal act
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Irresistible impulse
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_____ is defined as children age 7 and younger cannot form mens rea
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Irrebuttable presumption
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_____ is an altered state produced by the ingestion of drugs or alcohol; the condition may be voluntary or involuntary and may negate specific intent mens rea for some crimes
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Intoxication
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Is intellectual disability formerly mental retardation; characterized by an IQ of 70 or lower and two or more substantive deficits in adaptive or social functioning that manifest before the age of 18?
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True
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_____ is known as irrebutable presumption that children up to age 7 possess no mens rea. There is a rebuttable presumption that children aged 8 through 14 years possess no mens rea, but such presumption can be overcome by proof that the juvenile is able to appreciate the criminality of his conduct.
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Infancy
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_____ is defined as legally defective claim of self-defense that involves the use of excessive force to repel an attack
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Imperfect self-defense
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_____ is a finding that the defendant is criminally responsible for his conduct but not insane
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Guilty but mentally ill
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Is entrapment a defense based on government inducement to commit a crime that the defendant was not otherwise predisposed to commit?
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True
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_____ is known as a defense claiming that a person committed a crime because of force or a threat of force. Duress is never a defense to murder.
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Duress
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_____ is defined as a defense maintaining that the functioning of an offender’s brain at the time he or she committed an offense was impaired
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Diminished capacity
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_____ is a false fixed belief; commonly held by mentally ill offenders
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Delusion
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Is defense of property may not use deadly force to protect property with no threat to human life?
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True
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_____ is known as a defense that a defendant may claim if he came to the aid of another in peril and if self-defense would be justified on the part of the person in peril
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Defense of others
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_____ is defined as an early way to describe battering and its effects
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Cycle of violence
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_____ is the ability to understand the nature of the trial proceedings and to assist defense counsel required of defendants at all stages of the criminal proceeding, from arrest to execution
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Competency
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Is burden of production the burden of introducing a legally sufficient quantum of evidence to permit the trier of fact (judge or jury) to consider the issue or defense during their deliberations?
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True
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_____ is known as the burden of convincing the trier of fact (judge or jury) that the legal claim or defense is valid
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Burden of persuasion
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_____ is defined as A subset of self-defense defined by a repeated cycle of physical abuse that causes the victim to live in constant fear of being beaten, maimed, or killed; today the phrase used more often is “battering and its effects”
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Battered woman syndrome
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_____ is mens rea standard that applies to the defenses of infancy and insanity to assign the appropriate level of criminal culpability
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Appreciate the criminality of his conduct
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Is alibi a complete defense that states that the defendant could not have committed the crime because he was at a location other than the crime scene when the crime was committed?
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True
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_____ is known as defendant may be found legally insane if at the time of the crime he lacked “substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law.”
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ALI substantial capacity test
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An individual may use deadly force to protect his or her empty home, consistent with the philosophy that “a man’s home is his castle.”
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False
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An irrebutable presumption is irrefutable and cannot be overcome by additional evidence.
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True
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Showing the defendant could “appreciate the criminality of his conduct” is one way the government can overcome the defenses of infancy, insanity, and ALI substantial capacity tests.
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True
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The defense of entrapment cannot be raised unless the following actor is involved: ______.
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The government
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Battering and its effects can be illustrated by a Power and Control wheel that may include behaviors EXCEPT______.
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A calming honeymoon phase
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Self-defense is premised upon the triggering factor that the victim was confronted with a(n) ______.
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Immediate physical threat
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In Texas, courts had measured intellectual disability to determine if a defendant was exempt from the death penalty with reference to the character Lennie from which notable novel?
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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The term intellectually disabled was formerly known as______.
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Mental retardation
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The term “mental disease or defect” includes all of the following EXCEPT______.
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Abnormal sexual conduct
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To successfully raise a duress defense, the victim must have had______.
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No reasonable opportunity to escape other than commit the crime
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It is illegal to execute someone who was under what age at the time they committed first-degree murder?
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18
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The criteria courts examine before the government may legally medicate a defendant against his will includes all of the following EXCEPT______.
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The defendant is charged with a misdemeanor
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______ defense means the defendant could not have been at the scene of the crime because she can prove she was somewhere else.
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Alibi
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The term burden of proof comprises which of the following two intertwined concepts.
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Burdens of persuasion and production
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If an officer shoots and kills an armed felon who poses a threat, what type of defense is the homicide?
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Justified
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