Connecticut General Statutes
Title 53a - Penal Code
Chapter 951 - Penal Code: Statutory Construction; Principles of Criminal Liability

Section 53a-4. - Saving clause. - The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed as...

Section 53a-5. - Criminal liability; mental state required. - When the commission of an offense defined in this title,...

Section 53a-6. - Effect of ignorance or mistake. - (a) A person shall not be relieved of criminal liability...

Section 53a-7. - Effect of intoxication. - Intoxication shall not be a defense to a criminal charge,...

Section 53a-8. - Criminal liability for acts of another. - (a) A person, acting with the mental state required for...

Section 53a-9. - Lack of criminal responsibility; absence of prosecution or conviction not a defense. - In any prosecution for an offense in which the criminal...

Section 53a-10. - Defense. - (a) In any prosecution in which the criminal liability of...

Section 53a-11. - Criminal liability of individual for conduct in name of or on behalf of corporation or limited liability company. - A person shall be criminally liable for conduct constituting an...

Section 53a-12. - Defenses; burden of proof. - (a) When a defense other than an affirmative defense, is...

Section 53a-13. - Lack of capacity due to mental disease or defect as affirmative defense. - (a) In any prosecution for an offense, it shall be...

Section 53a-14. - Duress as defense. - In any prosecution for an offense, it shall be a...

Section 53a-15. - Entrapment as defense. - In any prosecution for an offense, it shall be a...

Section 53a-16. - Justification as defense. - In any prosecution for an offense, justification, as defined in...

Section 53a-16a. - Affirmative defense in certain situations involving firearms; exceptions. - In any prosecution for an offense under section 53a-55a, 53a-56a,...

Section 53a-16b. - Affirmative defense of coparticipant to offense with firearm. - In any prosecution for an offense under section 53a-55a, 53a-56a,...

Section 53a-17. - Conduct required or authorized by law or judicial decree. - Unless inconsistent with any provision of this chapter defining justifiable...

Section 53a-18. - Use of reasonable physical force or deadly physical force generally. - (a) The use of physical force upon another person which...

Section 53a-19. - Use of physical force in defense of person. - (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c) of...

Section 53a-20. - Use of physical force in defense of premises. - A person in possession or control of premises, or a...

Section 53a-21. - Use of physical force in defense of property. - A person is justified in using reasonable physical force upon...

Section 53a-22. - Use of physical force in making arrest or preventing escape. - (a)(1) For purposes of this section, a reasonable belief that...

Section 53a-23. - Use of physical force to resist arrest not justified. - A person is not justified in using physical force to...