Describe a criminal offense from the California Penal Code and the corresponding CALCRIM jury instruction setting out the elements of that offense. Identify whether that offense is a specific or general intent crime and how you know. Give a detailed hypothetical scenario involving the commission of the crime you chose, then discuss how a mental defense could negate the intent element of that offense. Include specific facts that may give rise to that mental defense in your hypothetical.

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One criminal offense from the California Penal Code is Assault with a Deadly Weapon Penal Code 245a1 and the corresponding CALCRIM jury instruction is ... View the full answer