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.