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Originally Posted by allaroundhunter
...In order to be found innocent of any criminal wrongdoing (in a self defense murder case), one must first confess to committing a crime....
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To be technical, you would not be confessing to a crime. You would be confessing to having performed the acts which are the elements of a crime, but you are claiming that the criminal nature of the acts in negated by the justification for the acts. And in any case, you would not be confessing to murder since an element of murder is malice; and you would by claiming self defense be denying malice.