In criminal law this defense can be grouped into four categories:
- Actual Innocense
- Excuses and Justifications
- Procedural Defenses
- "Innovative Defenses"
- With the exception of actual innocence and automatism, these defenses do not argue that the defendant did not commit a guilty act, but the term includes both acts and omissions, which broke the law; but rather, that the defendant should not be held culpable for what occurred. Note that there is also defense against an attacker, see self defense and defense of others, defnese of property.
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