Learning Objectives

1. List the four tests for legal insanity.

2. Distinguish between the defense of voluntary and the defense of involuntary intoxication.

3. Explain the relationship between age and the capacity to form a criminal intent and the factors that a court will consider in determining whether a juvenile is capable of forming a criminal intent.

4. State the elements of the duress defense.

5. Identify the two tests for entrapment.

6. Describe the “new defenses” and the arguments for recognizing “new defenses.”