Crime Charges and Defenses

There are many laws that are charged against a person who is involved in any criminal activity. For in this case Mike was the main villain as he has been involved in the criminal activities. First, he uses the fake currency to pay the price of the ring which he has bought for Tina. Secondly, he used a gun to shoot a person and he killed him. Thirdly he forced Tina to go with him and has forcefully taken her to his friend’s apartment. There he put the gun on Tina and wanted to kill her too but then his friend Tony came in front of Mike and stopped him but Tina was afraid of Mike and Mike threat her to shoot her, Tina was so afraid that she fell down from the window and died at the spot and Mike hit the gun over the Tony’s head and he became unconscious. As well as he has done a robbery as well by roberring the Tony’s phone and cash.

According to the Model Panel Code, Mike will be charged with Robbery, Counterfeit, Coercion of political activity and second degree murder.

For the second degree murder offense level 38: 19-250 the punishment will be life without parole or any other term.

The penalty for counterfeit according to the Model Panel Code is to charge money up to $15,000 from the criminal or in other cases 15 year for prison.

For intimidating, threatening, commanding or coercing a person, the criminal is punished by fine or he will be prisoned for three years.

For robbery, U.S Code Title 18 is used and 15 years of imprisonment is given to the person.

These are the charges that are against Mike but there is also a charge against Tony because he had the Counterfeit Money and he will also be charged. The penalty for counterfeit according to the Model Panel of Code is to charge up to $15,000 from the criminal or the person that has made a scam or imprisonment of 15 years will be given to the criminal.

The defense shield against counterfeit that Mike and Tony can use according to the Model Panel Code is that they can see they are not guilty because they did not have any intention of fraud or they both can defend themselves by saying that the quality of the currency is low that it does not fulfill the definition of the counterfeit.

The robbery defendant can say that they had not been present there at the time of robbery, they were attending some event, they can change the eye witnesses by paying them money or they can simply refuse that they were not involved in any theft because they were out of city at that time and can show them some fake witnesses. But they can only defend themselves on that condition if they are not caught red handed.

Defense against threatening can be that they are just being harsh for some time or they are just acting harsh or they are just trying to keep the person with them by faking the threat.

But in most of the cases there is no defense against murder when you have did it in front of everyone.

References Crime Charges and Defenses

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