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12-18-804. Defenses and affirmative defenses.
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12-18-804. Defenses and affirmative defenses.
For any act or omission of child maltreatment that would be a criminal offense or an act of delinquency, any defense or affirmative defense, including the burden of proof regarding the affirmative defense, that would apply to the criminal offense or delinquent act is also cognizable in a child maltreatment proceeding with the exception of:
(1) A statute of limitation;
(2) Lack of capacity as a result of mental disease or defect under § 5-2-312; and
(3) Affirmative defenses under §§ 5-1-112 — 5-1-114.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 12-18-804
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12-18-804. Defenses and affirmative defenses.
For any act or omission of child maltreatment that would be a criminal offense or an act of delinquency, any defense or affirmative defense, including the burden of proof regarding the affirmative defense, that would apply to the criminal offense or delinquent act is also cognizable in a child maltreatment proceeding with the exception of:
(1) A statute of limitation;
(2) Lack of capacity as a result of mental disease or defect under § 5-2-312; and
(3) Affirmative defenses under §§ 5-1-112 — 5-1-114.
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5-1-112. Affirmative defense — Former prosecution for same offense.
A former prosecution is an affirmative defense to a subsequent prosecution for the same offense under any of the following circumstances:
(1)(A) The former prosecution resulted in an acquittal.
(B)(i) There is an acquittal if the former prosecution resulted in a determination of not guilty.
(ii) A determination of guilt of a lesser included offense is an acquittal of the greater inclusive offense although the conviction is subsequently set aside;
(2)(A) The former prosecution resulted in a conviction.
(B) There is a conviction if the former prosecution resulted in a:
(i) Judgment of conviction that has not been reversed or vacated;
(ii) Verdict of guilty that has not been set aside and that is capable of supporting a judgment; or
(iii) Plea of guilty or nolo contendere accepted by the court; or
(3) The former prosecution was terminated without the express or implied consent of the defendant after the jury was sworn or, if trial was before the court, after the first witness was sworn, unless the termination was justified by overruling necessity.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 5-1-112
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5-1-114. Affirmative defense — Former prosecution in another jurisdiction.
When conduct constitutes an offense within the concurrent jurisdiction of this state and of the United States or another state or territory of the United States, a prosecution in any such other jurisdiction is an affirmative defense to a subsequent prosecution in this state under the following circumstances:
(1) The first prosecution resulted in an acquittal or in a conviction as set out in § 5-1-112, and the subsequent prosecution is based on the same conduct unless:
(A) The offense of which the defendant was formerly convicted or acquitted and the offense for which he or she is subsequently prosecuted each requires proof of a fact not required by the other offense and the law defining each offense is intended to prevent a substantially different harm or evil; or
(B) The second offense was not consummated when the former trial began; or
(2) The former prosecution was terminated by an acquittal or by a final order or judgment for the defendant that has not been set aside, reversed, or vacated and that required a determination inconsistent with a fact that must be established for the conviction of the offense for which the defendant is subsequently prosecuted.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 5-1-114
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5-2-312. Lack of criminal responsibility — Affirmative defense.
(a)(1) It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution that at the time the defendant engaged in the conduct charged he or she lacked criminal responsibility.
(2) When the affirmative defense of lack of criminal responsibility is presented to a jury, prior to deliberations the jury shall be instructed regarding the disposition of a defendant acquitted due to the defendant's lack of criminal responsibility as described under § 5-2-314.
(b) When a defendant is acquitted on a ground of lack of criminal responsibility, the verdict and judgment shall state that the defendant was acquitted on a ground of lack of criminal responsibility.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 5-2-312
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 5-2-312. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.