What are statutory defenses?

Statutory Defenses are:

1. Partially defense are those that have a reduction in sentencing such as necessity.

2. Complete defense are those that do not find someone guilty such as coercion.

a. Coercion vs. Necessity--

Coercion is when person a kills person b because c says so. An example would be a man going to kill family is husband does not rob a bank he owns. That would be a complete defense. The husband did not intend to rob bank he was forced to by threat or death.

b. Necessity is when someone uses force to stop a bigger natural disaster from occuring. An example of this would have been the move "Titanic," when at the end a man starts killing people because the people are all startled and freaking out and wanting to get on the spare boats to save themselves. This would be a partial defense.

3. Examples of Statutory Defenses that are in the Statutes are:

a. NGMMD (not guilty by mental disease or defect--insanity)

b. Self Defense (property, self or another individual)

c. Insanity