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Chapter 951 - Penal Code: Statutory Construction; Principles of Criminal Liability


  • Section 53a-4 - Saving clause.
  • Section 53a-5 - Criminal liability; mental state required.
  • Section 53a-6 - Effect of ignorance or mistake.
  • Section 53a-7 - Effect of intoxication.
  • Section 53a-8 - Criminal liability for acts of another.
  • Section 53a-9 - Lack of criminal responsibility; absence of prosecution or conviction not a defense.
  • Section 53a-10 - Defense.
  • Section 53a-11 - Criminal liability of individual for conduct in name of or on behalf of corporation or limited liability company.
  • Section 53a-12 - Defenses; burden of proof.
  • Section 53a-13 - Lack of capacity due to mental disease or defect as affirmative defense.
  • Section 53a-14 - Duress as defense.
  • Section 53a-15 - Entrapment as defense.
  • Section 53a-16 - Justification as defense.
  • Section 53a-16a - Affirmative defense in certain situations involving firearms; exceptions.
  • Section 53a-16b - Affirmative defense of coparticipant to offense with firearm.
  • Section 53a-17 - Conduct required or authorized by law or judicial decree.
  • Section 53a-18 - Use of reasonable physical force or deadly physical force generally.
  • Section 53a-19 - Use of physical force in defense of person.
  • Section 53a-20 - Use of physical force in defense of premises.
  • Section 53a-21 - Use of physical force in defense of property.
  • Section 53a-22 - Use of physical force in making arrest or preventing escape.
  • Section 53a-23 - Use of physical force to resist arrest not justified.
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