LEGAL DEFENSES

In the United States, an offender is considered less responsible or not responsible at all for acting under certain things/ways that the United States' law establishes. Those conditions are legal defenses or legal excuses for criminal responsibility. These excuses or defenses include acted under duress, was underage, was insane, acted in self-defense or in defense of a third party, was entrapped, or acted out of necessity. The two that I most agree with would have to be acting under insanity and acting out of self-defense. The legal excuse that I don't agree with is the underage one. I will explain to you why.
Insanity itself is a mental disorder, in which at times you cannot control your actions. When you are acting under insanity, it doesn't necessarily mean you are crazy. It could be that there was appoint in your life in which unconsciously you let insanity take control. You lost sense or what you were doing and you acted under impulsiveness. It is a......

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Title: Criminal Justice And Legal Deffenses
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