Actus Reus Argumentative Essay

The plaintiff of this particular case was charged with theft by the court because he stole a water softer from home depot to provide for his family because he did not have the proper funds to do so himself. The plaintiff's arguments to why he had committed the crime was because of his financial state at the time that he had committed the criminal offense, he stated to the court that he himself was previously a drug addict himself but stopped after he was put and jail and released. During his time in jail his though his wife picked up his old habits becoming a heavy drug user herself, while she was at home using drugs the plaintiff claimed he was the only one in the household working full time and supporting his two children. The position of …show more content…
They stated that his financial stability is not a valid reasoning for him to be committing theft and that his wife being a drug user isn’t proper or valid argument for doing what he had done. He had the guilty intent of stealing the item the ( Men’s Reus) and then he committing the ( Actus Reus) by actually committing the crime which no matter what his arguments were made him guilty in the court's eyes. The impression on the overall court's experience was that it really opened up my eyes to the different circumstances us as individuals have to our surroundings in society. The plaintiff wasn’t necessarily committing the crime for his own personal needs he estahblished that to the judge but taking in his previous crimanl record being in jail for drugs and recently just being let out of his previous sentence the court saw no reason for him to go back to his old ways and instead of putting him in jail for longer since he is a reoccurring convict theyt lowered his snetecing to only 60 days in jail because of the circumsatnces he provided in his argument about his wife currentyly situation with subastnce abuse and the well being of his two