Describe the concept of due process:

Due process is a legal term from the government. It is a principle that the government must respect the legal rights of an individual according to the law. This due process holds the government to the law of the land protecting people from the states power. This is kind of a way of limiting what the government can and can’t do in efforts to make them not be unfair to the people. I read this and I feel that it helps explain what I am trying to say a little more clearly. "The essential elements of due process of law are notice, an opportunity to be heard, and the right to defend in an orderly proceeding." Fiehe v. R.E. Householder Co., 125 So. 2, 7 (Fla. 1929). The constitution states only one command twice. The Fifth Amendment says to the federal government that no shall be “deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law”. The Fourteenth Amendment uses the same eleven words called Due Process Clause and it is used to describe the legal obligation of all states. Basically they are giving an promise of assurance that all levels of the government must operate within the law and provide fair procedures.

Describe three of the legal defense.

The three defenses that I would like to describe would be the insanity defense, self-defense, and the entrapment defense. The insanity defense is the defendant claims that because of mental health problems they were not responsible for their actions. The insanity defense is based on evaluations from professionals that state that the defendant was incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong in the legal sense. The theory behind the defense is people who are insane cannot have the intent required to performs a criminal act because they either do not know the act is wrong or they cannot control their actions even when they understand the act is wrong. The second defense that I would like to describe would be self-defense. This is when one uses force but justifies it because they reasonably believe that it is necessary for the defense of oneself. This defense during a case might be described as, the force I used that could have caused death or great bodily harm is justified because I very much believed that if I didn’t I might have received great bodily harm or even died. The entrapment defense is when defendants state they were induced to commit an offense and otherwise they would have been very unlikely to commit that crime. Entrapment normally holds 3 conditions. First the idea of committing the crime came from the government agents and not form the person accused. Second government agents persuaded or talked them into committing the crime. Third I would not have committed the crime if were not for the interaction with the government