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  2. Diminished responsibility - Wikipedia

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    In criminal law, diminished responsibility (or diminished capacity) is a potential defense by excuse by which defendants argue that although they broke the law, they should not be held fully criminally liable for doing so, as their mental functions were "diminished" or impaired.

  3. United States federal laws governing defendants with mental ...

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    Per Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12.2, a defendant intending to pursue an insanity defense must timely notify an attorney for the government in writing. The government then has a right to have the court order a psychiatric or psychological examination.

  4. Affirmative defense - Wikipedia

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    Among the most controversial affirmative defenses is the insanity defense, [8] whereby a criminal defendant seeks to be excused from criminal liability on the ground that a mental illness, at the time of the alleged crime, prevented him or her from understanding the wrongful nature of his or her actions.

  5. Insanity defense - Wikipedia

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    The insanity defense is also contrasted with a finding that a defendant cannot stand trial in a criminal case because a mental disease prevents them from effectively assisting counsel, from a civil finding in trusts and estates where a will is nullified because it was made when a mental disorder prevented a testator from recognizing the natural ...

  6. Justification and excuse - Wikipedia

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    A defense of justification is the product of society's determination that the actual existence of certain circumstances will operate to make proper and legal what otherwise would be criminal conduct. A defense of excuse, contrarily, does not make legal and proper conduct which ordinarily would result in criminal liability; instead, it openly ...

  7. 6 Common Myths About Bankruptcy - AOL

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    Just because bankruptcy is a more common process than you might think, that doesn’t make it a simple one. Even Rucinski, who is well-versed in bankruptcy procedures, admitted that “the ...

  8. Why the most serious charge in Luigi Mangione’s case is only ...

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    Given the image of the homicide captured on surveillance video – a dark-hooded figure with a gray backpack fatally shooting the executive in the back from several feet away – the case may seem ...

  9. Trump sentenced to penalty-free 'unconditional discharge' in ...

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    The New York judge who presided over Donald Trump’s hush money case on Friday sentenced the president-elect to an “unconditional discharge,” meaning he is now a convicted felon in the eyes ...

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