Criminal law defences

Some of the more common criminal defenses include:

Legal defenses in criminal law come from the way crime is defined.
There are numerous defenses that are seen in criminal cases.
Self-defense is the most commonly seen legal defense.
Others include:

whether the facts and circumstances of the crime are clear, whether the evidence is reliable and sufficient and whether the charge and the nature of the crime has been correctly determined; whether there are any crimes that have been omitted or other persons whose criminal responsibility should be investigated; whether it is a case in which criminal responsibility should not be investigated; whether the case has an incidental civil action; and whether the investigation of the case is being ..