13. What is Actus Rea: guilty act 14. What is concurrence: both guilty mind and act 15. In the Defense of Justification‚ one agrees they committed the act a. true b. False 16. IN the defense of Justification‚ one is
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guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The most common criminal defenses fall under two categories‚ excuse and justification. An excuse is when a person admits to committing a criminal act but believes that he or she can’t be held responsible because there was no criminal content. Some excuses used in court today are; mental disorder‚ infancy (age)‚ mistake of fact‚ mistake of law and automatism. In justification defenses‚ the accused admits to wrongdoing but argues that he or she should be freed from culpability
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is‚ is torture ok? In “Thinking about Torture”‚ Douthat writes “It doesn’t excuse what was done by our government‚ and in our name‚ in prisons‚ in detentions‚ cells around the world. But anyone who felt the way I felt after 9/11 has to reckon with the fact that what was done in our name was‚ in some sense‚ done for us.” This illustrates that Douthat has somewhat mixed feelings about torture. He feels that there is no excuse for the use of torture and what the government has done. But the way he
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” (JM) 2. JM distinguishes forgiving a person from excusing the act and from justifying the act. To (successfully) excuse an act is to show that the wrongdoer is not fully responsible for the wrongdoing: “He was tired.” “She has Alzheimer’s‚” “He was pushed” and so forth. These explanations of the cause of the act locate that cause outside of the agent’s control; so‚ they excuse the agent from blame for the act. 3. To justify wrongdoing is to continue to see the act as a responsible doing of
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Criminal Defense Case Analysis Criminal Law/ 354 August 11‚ 2011 Barry Q. Brooks‚ J.D Criminal Defense Case Analysis Throughout this analysis will be discussed the justification used in criminal defenses. The factual and legal defenses will be briefly discussed along with the justification of necessity‚ self-defense‚ unlawful arrest and consent. Types of Defenses “A defense consists of evidence and arguments offered by a defendant on behalf of his or her attorneys to show why that he or
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not commit the crime in question. Legal defense states “I did do it… but”‚ this category consists of two small groups and they are justification and excuse. In this defense both catagories each have several small groups with n themselves. Justification is when a dendant believes he committed a crime to avoid less harm to themselves. The first group in the justification category is necessity defense and this is when a defendant claims they commited the crime to avoid a greater harm that could have
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Prejudice has existed for as long as this country has existed. It is an ongoing issue‚ that we can not seem to understand. The Declaration of Independence was an important document passed in 1776‚ signed by fifty-six delegates‚ signifying everyone was equal. We are able to see the laws that were created years ago‚ lost the power they once held. Discrimination is real‚ and after so many movements‚ and revolutions‚ we have not learned how to not judge because of the color of our skin. We are constantly
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States : The Humane Society of the United States. 15 July 2010. Web. 22 Mar. 2011 . "Ohio Cruelty." Michigan State University College of Law. Web. 23 Mar. 2011. . Vaca-Guzman‚ Maria‚ and Arnold Arluke. "Normalizing passive cruelty: The excuses and justifications of animal hoarders." Anthrozoos 18.4 (2005): 338-357. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 29 Mar. 2011.
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Sissela Bok writes about in Lying: Moral choice in Public and Private Life. Bok acknowledges that despite numerous religious and moral statements against lying‚ people will still lie in certain situations. She will discuss and explain the different excuses people will give for lying. The first four chapters of Lying‚ Bok analyzes the nature of lying and basic approaches to evaluating lies. She analyzes many philosophers theory on lying‚ such as Immanuel Kant‚ Thomas Aquinas and Saint Augustine
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Coetzee employs the characteristic of writing back in order to criticise the Apartheid era through the allegory. An example of Lurie’s justification of his actions towards the sexual exploitation of young student Melanie‚ is in page 52 of which he states‚ “Suffice it to say that Eros entered. After that I was not the same.” Lurie provides the idealistic excuse of being succumbed by the immortal being of love and desire and thus justifies his actions as being instinctual and unavoidable. The allusion
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