Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The law does not provide a defense to individuals executing public duties.
2. Today, all 50 states recognize the right to forcibly resist an unlawful arrest.
3. Necessity is based on the assumption that had the legislature been confronted with the choice, legislators presumably would have safeguarded human life over the crime committed.
4. In order to use the necessity defense, the defendant must not have been substantially at fault in creating the emergency.
1. False
2. False
3. True
4. True
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).