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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Resources:
- “Listen and Learn” series
- California Bar Examination – Essay Questions and Selected Answers, February 2007
- California Bar Examination – Essay Questions and Selected Answers, October 2020
- Podcast Episode 70: Tackling a California Bar Exam Essay: Criminal Law and Procedure
- Podcast Episode 79: Tackling an MEE Criminal Law/Procedure and Evidence Essay
- Podcast Episode 185: Listen and Learn – Prosecution of a Criminal Trial (Burdens, Presumptions, Sufficiency)
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