{"id":19877,"date":"2023-05-15T15:00:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/criminal-defenses-affirmative-defenses-fall-under-the-categories-of-justification-and-excuse-answer-these-questions\/"},"modified":"2023-05-15T15:00:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T15:00:21","slug":"criminal-defenses-affirmative-defenses-fall-under-the-categories-of-justification-and-excuse-answer-these-questions","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/criminal-defenses-affirmative-defenses-fall-under-the-categories-of-justification-and-excuse-answer-these-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminal Defenses:  Affirmative defenses fall under the categories of justification and excuse.  Answer these questions:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; font-size: 16px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Affirmative defenses fall under the categories of justification and excuse.&nbsp; Answer these questions:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; font-size: 16px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">1) Discuss the legal and practical differences between a justification and an excuse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; font-size: 16px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">2) What is needed for an insanity plea to be approved by the courts? Give an example of a case that was approved for the insanity plea and the requisites behind that decision.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; font-size: 16px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">3) After Bill was arrested for robbery, his mental condition went from functioning to nonfunctioning.&nbsp; &nbsp; He no longer can help his lawyer defend him because he is no longer competent. What defense, if&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; any, does Bill have to the charge of robbery? Will he be successful?&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; font-size: 16px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 19px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">4) How did conducting research and going through each step of legal analysis help you to reach this conclusion?&nbsp; Analyze how you applied critical thinking and legal analytical skills to assist you in this regard. &nbsp;What new research and\/or analytical tool or method did you try for the first time this week?&nbsp; What do you think you do well and what would you like to strengthen so that you continue to improve?&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Affirmative defenses fall under the categories of justification and excuse.&nbsp; Answer these questions: 1) Discuss the legal and practical differences between a justification and an excuse. 2) What is needed for an insanity plea to be approved by the courts? Give an example of a case that was approved for the insanity plea and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[1107],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/19877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/19877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=19877"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=19877"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=19877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}