"Elements of a Crime and Jurisdiction" Please respond to the following:Review the table, titled...

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"Elements of a Crime and Jurisdiction" Please respond to the following:Review the table, titled "Elements of a Crime", located in Chapter 3 of the textbook, then compare and contrast the roles of mens rea (i.e., guilty mind) and actus reus (i.e., the forbidden act or omission) as they relate to proving a crime has been committed. Next, discuss whether the concurrent occurrence of these elements is more beneficial to the prosecution or the defense. Justify your response.It is common knowledge that jurisdiction, the official power to make legal decisions and judgments, is vitally important to the adversarial legal system. Discuss the importance of having either subject matter jurisdiction or personal jurisdiction over the cause of action. Include one (1) example of the importance of the chosen jurisdiction to support your response.

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Mens rea and actus reus play important role in the process of determination the nature of 
an actual crime. To prove that a crime has been committed some aspects and elements of crime 
must have to be presented and related to the case under question. In this respect it must be said 
that to prove a crime had actually been committed one has to prove the element of mens rea 
which involves the process of proving the presence of a state of mind, at the time of the 
commission of crime, which triggered the criminal act (Criminal Law, 2010, p.59). But this 
proof alone cannot build a criminal case on a firm basis. The element of actus reus must also 
have to be proved. This element, in contrast to the element of mens rea,

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