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CJS 220: Legal Defense
Legal Defenses
JB
August 19, 2013
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ESTANISLAO ROSAS

In the readings that I have done I have found that there are three different types of legal defenses, they are: self-defense, insanity, and provocation. In a case where a person is charged with first degree premeditated murder, if they were to use one of the three defenses the punishment would not be the maximum that is normally imposed depending on the crime and type of defense that is used. If reasonable force us used against an individual and there is a threat of imminent bodily harm or death, and the individual defends themselves, that person may be acquitted of first-degree murder. To argue perfect self-defense, and
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