Types of Legal Defenses
Legal Defenses • Insanity • Automatism • Intoxication • Duress • Self-Defense • Alibi • Necessity • Mistake of Fact • Provocation • Officially induced error • Entrapment • Double Jeopardy Insanity • Accused cannot perform the Mens Rea of the offence or is not fit to stand trial. To Prove Insanity you must: • …