Category:Criminal defenses

• Criminal defenses

A

• Abuse defense
• Actual innocence
• Affluenza
• ALI rule
• Alibi
• Ambush defence
• Automatism (law)

B

• Battered woman syndrome
• Befehlsnotstand

C

• Castle doctrine
• Chewbacca defense
• Competence (law)
• Competing harms
• Consent (criminal law)
• Corpse-like obedience
• Criminal Defense in China

D

• Defence of property
• Deific-decree
• Diminished responsibility
• Diminished responsibility in English law
• Drury v HM Advocate
• Duress in American law
• Duty to retreat

E

• Excuse

F

• False confession
• False evidence
• Fantasy defense
• Frameup

G

• Gay panic defense
• Graymail

H

• Hip flask defence

I

• Idiot defense
• Impossibility defense
• Age of criminal responsibility
• Innocent owner defense
• Insanity defense
• Intoxication defense
• Irresistible impulse

J

• Justifiable homicide
• Justification (jurisprudence)
• Justification and excuse

K

• King Kong defense

L

• Legitimate defense of honor
• Loss of control defence

M

• M'Naghten rules
• Matrix defense
• Mistake (criminal law)
• Mistake of law
• Mistaken identity

N

• Necessity (criminal law)
• Necessity and duress
• Harrison W. Noel

O

• Outrageous government conduct

P

• Partial defence
• Poppy seed defence
• Procedural defense
• Prosecutorial misconduct
• Provocation (law)
• Public interest defence

R

• R v Sullivan
• Clarence Richeson
• Rough sex murder defense

S

• Selective prosecution
• Self-defence law (Czech Republic)
• Self-defense (Sweden)
• Settled insanity
• Shaggy defense
• Stalingrad legal defense
• Stanford Law School Three Strikes Project
• Superior orders

T

• Trojan horse defense
• Tu quoque defense
• Twinkie defense

U

• Urban survival syndrome