LE 115 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Terry Stop, Exclusionary Rule, Irresistible Impulse

• School: Quinnipiac University
• Department: Legal Studies
• Course: LE 115
• Professor: Grudberg

Document Summary

Defenses: excusing criminal conduct, but for some reason no criminal penalty will be assigned to that conduct. Defendant will not be help responsible because there is some excuse/justification for that conduct. Justification defenses that action (under certain circumstances) is the correct action to be taken. Excused offense conduct that is wrong, but not going to punish the person because they have some excuse for why they acted that way i. e. insanity defense. Insane if you have an irresistible impulse to commit an act. If bad act is the product of a mental disease or defect. Affirmative defense fact or set of facts other than those alleged by the plaintiff or prosecutor which, if proven by the defendant, defeats or mitigates (lessens/alleviates) the legal consequences of the defendant"s otherwise unlawful conduct. Stand your ground if you are someone who hits all elements of self defense, you have no duty to retreat, even if you could (in complete safety) take off.