Affirmative Defense: Criminal Law And Procedure

Affirmative defenses are used to clarify or justify the conduct that is suspected to be of unlawful nature .This type of guard at times is harder to prove than those of a negating type. The affirmative defense possibly can end up with a conviction or a decrease in a defendant’s charges which raises a red flag of a defendant’s psychological status at the time of a crime (Hall, 2015). A good answer will explain that a defendant raises an affirmative defense in the latter portion of his or her answer. The first part of the answer is dedicated to responding to each and every one of the allegations raised in the complaint. After that, the defendant is free to raise affirmative defenses.
References
Hall, D. (2015). Criminal Law and Procedure (7th