Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, we're looking at a few specific defenses in Criminal Law, which if used successfully, may exonerate a defendant or reduce their punishment.

In this episode, we discuss:

Factual and affirmative defenses
Perfect and imperfect affirmative defenses
Defense of duress
Defenses having to do with the defendant's mental state
Self-defense and defense of others
Analyzing two essay questions from previous California bar exams

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202: Listen and Learn -- Defenses to a Crime

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202: Listen and Learn -- Defenses to a Crime