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Affirmative defenses is the answer to which a defendant gives the court in response to the crime they are charged with. There are two main types of affirmative defenses, Justifications and excuses. Justifications and excuses are answers that the defended did do the crime but they can give a wonderful and perfectly good reason why they did it and they should not be held responsible for the crime they committed. Because every case is different there is a plethora of justifications and excuses, some traditional that have been heard many times in the court and justifications and excuses that have never been heard in a court of law.
The first type of defense I'm going to write about is justifications. Justifications are defenses that claim the defended did indeed commit the crime but they commit the crime for a very good reason. Four of the most popular and most used justifications are self-defense, public duty, necessity, and consent.
The justification of self-defense is based on......

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