ProView Plus Print Criminal Law Defenses (Criminal Practice Series)

Criminal Law Defenses allows you to effectively represent defendants by providing defenses recognized by the statutes and caselaw of every state. This easy-to-use treatise helps you: • Discover whether a particular defense is available to your client • Assess the potential and the limitations of more than 60 commonly employed defenses, covering virtually every criminal law defense statute This publication contains: • Discussions of criminal law defense statutes • Exhaustive citations to secondary sources • References to proposed model codifications • A table of cases and table of statutes • Model Penal Code references • Table of secondary authorities Topics include public policy defenses, excuse defenses, and nonexculpatory public policy defenses.