When self-defense is used as a defense, what is the key requirement by the courts for its justification?

A. The person is in imminent danger of injury or death.
B. The person has temporarily lost the distinction between right and wrong.
C. The person is mentally incompetent.
D. The person is caught up in irresistible impulse.

A

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A) Mark, who lives with both of his parents and has a close relationship with both. B) Beth, who is involved in a number of church activities. C) Liza, who lives with her single mother and does not do well in school. D) Leon, whose parents express their disapproval of early sexual activity.

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When developmentalists looked at the two kinds of intelligence, fluid and crystallized, to determine if intelligence continues to grow, slow, or decline with age, they determined that __________

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