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Affirmative defenses are legal defenses that raise new facts or issues not raised in the Complaint. If you want the court to consider your legal defenses you MUST include them in your Answer. Therefore, any possible defense you might want the court to consider at trial should be in your Answer.
(b) An affirmative defense is an allegation of a new matter which, while hypothetically admitting the material allegations in the pleading of the claimant, would nevertheless prevent or bar recovery by him.
While the availability of an affirmative defense will depend on the state, there are generally two categories of affirmative defenses, justifications and excuses.
31 Affirmative Defenses And How To Assert Them.
A denial or failure of proof defense focuses on the elements of the crime and prevents the prosecution from meeting its burden of proof. An affirmative defense is a defense that raises an issue separate from the elements of the crime.
An affirmative defense operates to prevent conviction even when the prosecutor has proof beyond a reasonable doubt as to every element of the crime. Some jurisdictions place the burden on the defendant to prove the defense, while others require that the prosecution disprove the defense beyond a reasonable doubt.