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A defense asserted in a criminal prosecution that a person who committed a crime did not do so of his or her own free will, but only because the individual was compelled by another through the use of physical force or threat of immediate serious bodily injury or death.
Historically, the substantive criminal law was. divided into two categories: (a) general intent crimes and (b) specific intent crimes. A. general intent crime is a crime like arson in which the prosecution can prove the. required mental state simply by showing that the defendant knowingly committed the.