Across
- 6. Reasonable nondeadly force used to prevent a felony.
- 11. Government improperly induces a non-predisposed defendant to commit a crime.
- 12. Reasonable reliance on official law or unpublished law may excuse liability.
- 14. Common law defense when intended conduct would not actually be a crime.
- 17. Mistake about a material fact may negate the required mens rea.
- 19. Crime was the product of the defendant's mental disease or defect.
- 21. Minority rule requiring safe retreat before using deadly force.
- 22. Mental disease or defect may excuse criminal liability under tests like M'Naghten, irresistible impulse, MPC, or Durham.
- 23. Knowing and voluntary permission may negate unlawful contact or taking.
- 24. Defendant did not know the nature and quality of the act or did not know it was wrong.
- 25. Reasonable force used against an imminent threat of unlawful bodily contact.
Down
- 1. Defendant was drugged or intoxicated against their will, defeating mens rea.
- 2. Mental disability prevents formation of the mens rea required for the offense.
- 3. Reasonable force used to protect another from imminent unlawful bodily contact.
- 4. Reasonable nondeadly force used to prevent imminent unlawful intrusion or interference.
- 5. MPC defense to solicitation when voluntary, complete, and successful in thwarting the crime.
- 7. Defendant was unable to control conduct or conform conduct to the law.
- 8. Self-induced intoxication may apply to specific-intent crimes but not general-intent crimes.
- 9. Substance-induced impairment that may defeat mens rea in limited circumstances.
- 10. Very young defendant lacks capacity to form criminal mens rea.
- 13. No duty to retreat when defending in one's home or workplace.
- 15. MPC defense when attempt is voluntarily and completely renounced before the last act.
- 16. Defendant commits lesser harm to avoid a greater significant harm.
- 18. Defendant commits crime because of threat of death or serious bodily harm.
- 20. Conspiracy defense when the target crime necessarily requires two parties and no extra party agrees.
