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Podcast: Law School
Episode: Mastering the Bar Exam: Criminal Law - Defenses to Criminal Liability (Episode Four)
Description: 1. Justifications: Self-Defense, Defense of Others, Defense of Property.
Justifications are defenses where the defendant admits to committing the act but claims it was justified under the circumstances. These defenses acknowledge that, while the act was technically criminal, it was necessary in the context.
Self-Defense.
Definition and Elements: Self-defense is the right to prevent suffering force or violence through the use of a sufficient level of counteracting force or violence. The key elements include a reasonable belief of an imminent threat of unlawful force and the use of a proportionate amount of force in...