Defense Presentation

For this assignment, you are the defense attorney. Summarize your defense presentation regarding how this defense could be used in two (2) of the following scenarios.

Submit both scenarios in one Word document.

Gulf War Syndrome – A military soldier who used lethal violence in self-defense argued that the trauma of serving in Iraq or Afghanistan caused him to overreact to provocation.

Child Sexual Abuse Syndrome – A victim of child abuse used her prior abuse experiences to mitigate her culpability in a crime where the death penalty was a sentencing option.