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Criminal Law (Justification and Excuses (C. Justification- General…

- - - - (4) When the offender's conduct is reasonable discipline of minors by their parents, tutors, or teachers
      - (5) When the crime consists of a failure to perform an affirmative duty and the failure to perform is caused by a physical impossibility
      - (3) When for any reason the offender's conduct if authorized by law
      - (6) When any crime (except murder) is committed through the compulsion of threats by another of death or great bodily harm, and the offender reasonably believes the person making the threats is present and would immediately carry out the threats if the crime were not committed
      - (2) Reasonable accomplishment of an arrest which is lawful in criminal procedure.
      - (7) When the offender's conduct is in defense of persons or of property under any of the circumstances described in Articles 19 through 22.
      - (1) Conduct is fulfillment of duties of public office
    - - (C) A person who is not engaged in unlawful activity and who is in a place where he or she has a right to be shall have no duty to retreat before using force or violence as provided for in this Section and may stand his or her ground and meet force with force.
      - (B) For the purposes of this Section, there shall be a presumption that a person lawfully inside a dwelling, place of business, or motor vehicle held a reasonable belief that the use of force or violence was necessary to prevent unlawful entry thereto, or to compel an unlawful intruder to leave the premises or motor vehicle if both of the following occur:
        
        (1) The person against whom the force or violence was used was in the process of unlawfully or forcibly entering or had unlawfully or forcibly entered the dwelling, place of business or motor vehicle.
        
        (2) The person who used force or violence knew or had reason to believe that an unlawful and forcible entry was occurring or had occurred
      - (A) justifiable when committed for the purpose of preventing a forcible offense against the person or a forcible offense or trespass against property in a person's lawful possession, provided that the force or violence used must be reasonable or apparently necessary to prevent such offense (not apply when the result is homicide)
      - (D) No finder of fact shall be permitted to consider the possibility of retreat as a factor in determining whether or not the person who used force or violence in defense of his person or property had a reasonable belief that force or violence was reasonable and apparently necessary to prevent a forcible offence or to prevent the unlawful entry.
- - - - "anything of value" cannot constitute services; nor does attempting to use another's ID to enter an entertainment event
      - Covers fraud!