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Common Law rules to know

1) Reasonability and imminence requirements for self-protection – objective standard.


2) For insanity – there is no volitional prong. It can only be the cognitive impairment.
3) Entrapment – subjective test (Sherman majority)
a. Focus is on the actions of the defendant. Look at past history to see if defendant was
really ready to commit the crime.

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