Name: _____________________________

Date: ________________

Defense

You are acting as a defense attorney. Your job is to find a way to get your client out of trouble. Each
scenario describes a crime. Using your notes, determine how best to get the charges against your client
either dropped entirely or at least reduced from a specific intent crime to a general intent crime.

1. Your client was in a car wreck on the way home from a bar that resulted in the injury of one
person in another vehicle. The client claims she was drugged at the bar where she’d been less
than an hour before, and the toxicology report shows that she ingested the date rape drug. She
also had a blood alcohol content of .04%. She is facing charges of reckless endangerment, driving
while intoxicated, and assault.

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2. Your client was in a car wreck involving three other vehicles. Two people were hurt, one
seriously. The client claims he had a seizure while driving, and his medical history shows he
takes medicine to control epilepsy. He has been brought up on charges of assault and reckless
driving.

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3. Your client was drinking at a bar to the point well beyond legal intoxication. He had an Uber
driver take him home, and found his wife in bed with another man. In a rage, he grabbed his
legally owned pistol and killed both of them.

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4. Your client is a sugar salesman. One of his suppliers also happens to be a cocaine dealer, and he
accidentally puts a pound of cocaine in a crate of sugar that is shipped to your client. The client
then sold the cocaine, but thought it was sugar. He has been charged with felony drug possession
and distribution (enough to get him more than 100 years in prison).

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