Defenses

Mental disorder (insanity) Automatism. Intoxication. Mistake of fact. Necessity/lesser harm. Lawful capacity of office. Self-defense. Duress.

When it comes to criminal cases, there are usually four major criminal defense strategies that criminal attorneys employ: innocence, constitutional violations, self-defense, and insanity.

Accidents. Alibis. Coerced Confessions. Double Jeopardy. Duress. Entrapment. False Accusations / Wrongful Arrest. Insanity.

The four categories of criminal defense recognized include alibi, justification, excuse, and procedural defense.

Defence and defense are both correct ways to spell the same word. The difference between them, the fact that one's spelled with a c and the other with an s, comes down to the part of the world in which they are used. In the United States, people spell it with an sdefense.

The most commonly recognized of these defenses are self-defense and defense of others. A defendant may argue, for instance, that he did shoot an intruder but did so in self-defense because the intruder was threatening him with a knife.

In criminal cases, there are usually four primary defenses used: innocence, self-defense, insanity, and constitutional violations. Each of these has their uses, and not all cases can use these defense strategies.

Self-defense. Self-defense is used primarily in assault or homicide charges. Lack of intent. In every felony criminal case, the government must prove that the defendant intended to commit the alleged crime- that it was not a mistake or happenstance. Entrapment. Duress. Mistake.

Defence and defense are different spellings of the same word; yet belong to different forms of the English language. Defense is used in American English, and defence is used in British English, which spans Australian and Canadian English. It is important to maintain spelling consistency within a piece of writing.

Excuse defenses include insanity, diminished capacity, duress, mistake, infancy and entrapment. If a defendant is legally insane at the time he commits the crime, he may be found not guilty by reason of insanity.