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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	Castle doctrine	2,103
2	Chewbacca defense	1,615
3	Insanity defense	1,294
4	Duress	1,033
5	Twinkie defense	812
6	Gay panic defense	691
7	Right of self-defense	641
8	Alibi	569
9	Necessity	459
10	M'Naghten Rules	385
11	Defense of infancy	381
12	Superior Orders	346
13	Justifiable homicide	340
14	Diminished responsibility	302
15	Battered woman defense	232
16	Provocation (legal)	221
17	Excuse (legal)	217
18	Intoxication defense	191
19	Self-defence in English law	187
20	Consent (criminal law)	169
21	Mistake (criminal law)	158
22	Defence of property	157
23	Automatism (law)	146
24	Duty to retreat	144
25	Mistaken identity	121
26	Prosecutorial misconduct	113
27	Frameup	108
28	Mistake of law	108
29	Irresistible impulse	95
30	Mental disorder defence	87
31	Imperfect self-defense	84
32	Urban survival syndrome	78
33	Idiot defense	72
34	Falsified evidence	67
35	Self-defence (Australia)	61
36	Black rage (law)	60
37	Criminal defenses	60
38	Abuse defense	59
39	Impossibility defense	59
40	Right of self-defense in Maryland	58
41	Actual innocence	57
42	Justification (jurisprudence)	56
43	Automatism (case law)	51
44	Selective prosecution	42
45	Procedural defense	40
46	Settled insanity	37
47	Stanford Law School Three Strikes Project	32
48	People v. Berry	28
49	Clarence Richeson	25
50	Graymail	19
51	Ambush defence	15
52	Age of criminal responsibility in Australia	14
53	Competing harms	13
54	Innovative defense	12
55	Drury v HM Advocate	11
56	Hip flask defence	11
57	Resisting unlawful arrest	10
58	Innocent owner defense	9
59	Biological defense	6
60	The Matrix defense	6
61	Outrageous government conduct	6
62	Public interest defense	less than 5 views
63	Wikipedia defense	less than 5 views

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