CCJS 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Affirmative Defense, Vigilante, Fot
23 Dec 2016
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Defenses: affirmative defenses: *you do not have to offer a defense* as a defendant. = your defense is that you don"t need one! You don"t have to offer an alibi, justification or excuse. Don"t have to offer a defense, alibi, justification, excuse at a criminal trial, the states has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. Certain legal requirements: some credible evidence: justification defense: when a defendant admits what they did. Say they"re responsible, but their actions based on the the circumstances they faced at that time, what they did was right/justified: chill dude. Don"t like self help, but sometimes need it in rural areas with high police response time. Legally self help frowned upon, can"t be cop in every corner. Loathed,and understood in law we have the right to protect ourselves. Hamel, his dumbass in ocean city parking garage, gun pulled out. Self help okay: as long as you don"t go all the way over to vigilantism.
