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Penal Code: Statutory Construction; Principles of Criminal Liability

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Criminal liability; mental state required.

Effect of ignorance or mistake.

Effect of intoxication.

Criminal liability for acts of another.

Lack of criminal responsibility; absence of prosecution or conviction not a defense.

Defense.

Criminal liability of individual for conduct in name of or on behalf of corporation or limited liability company.

Defenses; burden of proof.

Lack of capacity due to mental disease or defect as affirmative defense.

Duress as defense.

Entrapment as defense.

Justification as defense.

Section
53a-16a

Affirmative defense in certain situations involving firearms; exceptions.

Section
53a-16b

Affirmative defense of coparticipant to offense with firearm.

Conduct required or authorized by law or judicial decree.

Use of reasonable physical force or deadly physical force generally.

Use of physical force in defense of person.

Use of physical force in defense of premises.

Use of physical force in defense of property.

Use of physical force in making arrest or preventing escape.

Use of physical force to resist arrest not justified.