FACTS: Holland continues to prepare for the Bar Association professional development seminar and gives you the responsibility of preparing another hypothetical fact scenario for the seminar. To help evaluate the hypothetical scenario for possible use in the seminar, you are to discuss the scenario with other paralegals to get their perspectives.

1. List a hypothetical fact scenario involving a crime and an excuse defense to the crime described.

2. Explain the defense and how it applies to the scenario.

3. Explain why the excuse defense applies to the actions of the defendant(s) in your scenario and why the excuse defense would likely be successful, or why it would not likely be successful in the scenario.