Explain why affirmative defenses may be legitimate, yet risky.
What will be an ideal response?
Students must discuss the utility of affirmative defenses, the negatives and positives of allowing affirmative defenses to be used, and the potential for abuse.
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a. community assessment b. prevention c. intervention d. suppression
Which of the following statements is true?
a. For a conclusive presumption, the judge instructs the jury that, if they believe the basic fact has been established, they are not required to accept that proof of the basic fact establishes the presumed fact. b. For a rebuttable presumption, the judge instructs the jurors that, if they believe the basic fact, they are required to accept the presumed fact. c. A conclusive presumption requires that proof of a basis fact establishes the presumed fact. d. A conclusive presumption permits but does not require the jury to infer the presumed fact from the basic fact.
What prompted the development of formal agencies of criminal justice in the nineteenth century?
a. the Civil War b. the rising number of murders in port cities c. rampant alcohol abuse d. criminal gangs and groups
The First Amendment allows government to criminalize the utterance of "fighting" words—words that tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace
Indicate whether the statement is true or false