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there’s a couple defenses you can use in
a domestic violence case the first is
going to be self-defense um so you can
argue that you’re acting in defense of
yourself however that requires that
there has to be an imminent danger and
that the use of force you use has to be
reasonable based on that imminent danger
you can also use defense of others so
that means that someone else was in
imminent danger and you used a
reasonable amount of force to defend
that other person and then the last one
is choice of evils which just means that
there was a situation or another harm
that could have occurred whether that’s
another crime or something else and you
acted in this um incident as to avoid
that other result which could have been
worse than the result that you had
caused
Colorado Springs, CO criminal defense attorney Zoe Lavesque talks about the possible defenses that might be available in domestic violence cases.