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2.7: CRJ OER CJ CH 3.4 Multiple Choice Questions (23)

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    A type of criminal defense where the accused claims that they would not have done the criminal act if it were not for substantial encouragement by police.

    • Substantial Capacity Test
    • Mistake of Law
    • Parsons v. State (1887)
    • Entrapment

    A ____________________ and circumstances surrounding an event can sometimes be a defense to criminal charges.

    • Entrapment
    • Deadly Force
    • Parsons v. State (1887)
    • Mistake of Fact

    A legal defense based on the idea that a small harm can sometimes be necessary to prevent a greater harm from occurring; another name for the necessity defense.

    • Solicitation
    • Involuntary Intoxication
    • Justification
    • Necessity Defense

    An error as to the facts and circumstances surrounding an event can sometimes be a defense to criminal charges; a error of law is never an excuse.

    • Entrapment
    • Mistake Defense
    • Mistake of Fact
    • Solicitation

    A criminal defense based on the logic that the defendant should not be held liable because he or she acted criminally due to an inebriation that the defendant did not cause.

    • Imminent Danger
    • Involuntary Intoxication
    • M’Naghten Rule
    • Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity

    A potential harm that is likely to occur at any moment.

    • Self-defense
    • Lesser of Two Evils Defense
    • Irresistible Impulse Test
    • Imminent Danger

    A plea that must be entered (in some jurisdictions) when the defendant is planning to use a “guilty but mentally ill” defense.

    • M’Naghten Rule
    • Irresistible Impulse Test
    • Mistake Defense
    • Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity

    An insanity defense test that asks if the defendant could or could not control his or her actions.

    • Non-deadly Force
    • Lesser of Two Evils Defense
    • Irresistible Impulse Test
    • Insanity Defense

    The crime of inducing another person to commit a crime, usually for money.

    • Lesser of Two Evils Defense
    • Excuse
    • Irresistible Impulse Test
    • Solicitation

    A type of criminal defense where the accused admits to the criminal act, but maintains that they are not blameworthy because of extenuating circumstances.

    • Mistake of Fact
    • Excuse
    • Mistake Defense
    • Substantial Capacity Test

    A state of inebriation knowingly and voluntarily entered into; not a viable criminal defense

    • Non-deadly Force
    • Irresistible Impulse Test
    • Duress
    • Voluntary Intoxication

    A criminal defense based on the idea that a person who commits a crime because of a mental disease or defect is not culpable.

    • Entrapment
    • Duress
    • Justification
    • Insanity Defense

    Force that is not likely to cause death or serious bodily injury.

    • Imminent Danger
    • Lesser of Two Evils Defense
    • Mistake of Fact
    • Non-deadly Force

    The Model Penal Code test for insanity that includes elements of the M’Naughten rule as well as elements of the irresistible impulse test.

    • Justification
    • Coercion
    • Mistake of Law
    • Substantial Capacity Test

    A legal defense based on the idea that a small harm can sometimes be necessary to prevent a greater harm from occurring; another name for the necessity defense.

    • Lesser of Two Evils Defense
    • Parsons v. State (1887 )
    • Non-deadly Force
    • Voluntary Intoxication

    The practice (usually criminal) of using force or the threat of force to gain compliance.

    • Lesser of Two Evils Defense
    • Parsons v. State (1887)
    • Duress
    • Coercion

    An important Alabama Supreme Court case decided in 1887 that established the Irresistible Impulse Test of insanity.

    • Non-deadly Force
    • Justification
    • Parsons v. State (1887)
    • Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity

    A criminal defense that allows for the use of force to protect one’s person from harm, as well as the protection of others.

    • Self-defense
    • M’Naghten Rule
    • Coercion
    • Involuntary Intoxication

    A legal defense available to a person who does something against their will under threat of harm.

    • Duress
    • Self-defense
    • Necessity Defense
    • Mistake Defense

    A legal defense based on a claim that the act, while usually criminal, was right under the particular circumstances.

    • Necessity Defense
    • Justification
    • Imminent Danger
    • Lesser of Two Evils Defense

    A____________is never an excuse.

    • Mistake of Law
    • M’Naghten Rule
    • Deadly Force
    • Coercion

    An amount of force likely to cause serious bodily injury or death if used against a person.

    • Parsons v. State (1887)
    • Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity
    • Mistake of Law
    • Deadly Force

    A legal test of insanity that hinges in the defendant’s inability to know right from wrong; originated in an English court case in 1843, making it the first major test for insanity.

    • Coercion
    • M’Naghten Rule
    • Lesser of Two Evils Defense
    • Duress
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