Law education vocab

Alibi

• Latin for “elsewhere”, i.e. the person charged with the crime was somewhere else when the crime was committed

• allows the use of deadly force when defending one’s home or other property, including one’s car orplace of business; see also “stand one’s ground”

• the person arrested and charged with crime is not the principal, accessory, or accomplice

• can be used if the person being defended could meet the requirements of self-defense

Castle Law

• allows the use of deadly force when defending one’s home or other property, including one’s car or

  place of business; see also “stand one’s ground”

• the person arrested and charged with crime is not the principal, accessory, or accomplice

• Latin for “elsewhere”, i.e. the person charged with the crime was somewhere else when the crime was

  committed

• can be used if the person being defended could meet the requirements of self-defense

Mistaken identity

• the person arrested and charged with crime is not the principal, accessory, or accomplice

• can be used if the person being defended could meet the requirements of self-defense

• the use of reasonable force to defend one’s home or property; usually must be non-deadly

• allows the use of deadly force when defending one’s home or other property, including one’s car or

  place of business; see also “stand one’s ground”

Defense of another

• the person arrested and charged with crime is not the principal, accessory, or accomplice

• can be used if the person being defended could meet the requirements of self-defense

• a lack of free will or coercion via the threat of immediate danger to life or personal safety

• the inducement or persuasion to commit a crime by a law enforcement officer

Defense of property

• the use of reasonable force to defend one’s home or property; usually must be non-deadly

  force but see the “Castle Law”

• a lack of free will or coercion via the threat of immediate danger to life or personal safety

• the inducement or persuasion to commit a crime by a law enforcement officer

• allows the use of deadly force when defending one’s home or other property, including one’s car or

  place of business; see also “stand one’s ground”

Duress

• a lack of free will or coercion via the threat of immediate danger to life or personal safety

• the inducement or persuasion to commit a crime by a law enforcement officer

• the principal, accomplice, or accessory is a minor, i.e. the legal status of a person who is considered not

  yet legally responsible for his activities; the age before which a person is entitled to legal rights

  normally held by adult citizens

• a mental disease or defect that results in a) no understanding of actions, or b) the difference between

  right and wrong

Entrapment

• the inducement or persuasion to commit a crime by a law enforcement officer

• the principal, accomplice, or accessory is a minor, i.e. the legal status of a person who is considered not

  yet legally responsible for his activities; the age before which a person is entitled to legal rights

  normally held by adult citizens

• a mental disease or defect that results in a) no understanding of actions, or b) the difference between

  right and wrong

• the unavoidable compulsion to commit a crime

Infancy

• the principal, accomplice, or accessory is a minor, i.e. the legal status of a person who is considered not

  yet legally responsible for his activities; the age before which a person is entitled to legal rights

  normally held by adult citizens

• a mental disease or defect that results in a) no understanding of actions, or b) the difference between

  right and wrong

• the crime that has been charged against an individual did not occur due to the

  failure to meet the required elements of the crime

• used for a crime that requires criminal intent, i.e. there was no intent on the part of the

  principal

Insanity

• a mental disease or defect that results in a) no understanding of actions, or b) the difference between

  right and wrong

• the state of drunkenness or similar condition created by the use of alcohol or other drugs

• factors that lessen the severity of a crime and/or the culpability of the offender which

  are usually determined by the judge

• the unavoidable compulsion to commit a crime

Intoxication

• the state of drunkenness or similar condition created by the use of alcohol or other drugs

• factors that lessen the severity of a crime and/or the culpability of the offender which

  are usually determined by the judge

• the unavoidable compulsion to commit a crime

• the crime that has been charged against an individual did not occur due to the

  failure to meet the required elements of the crime