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allows a defendant's mental illness or defect to reduce, not negate/excuse, a defendant's criminal liability
2
the defendant admits to the wrongdoing but has to produce evidence to persuade the jury or judge of the truth of the justification or excuse
3
assessing if a defendant is not criminally responsible for an act when a mental disability prevented them from knowing or understanding right from wrong when they committed the act
4
prosecution has to prove all the elements of a crime beyond any reasonable doubt
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to be forgiven or excused from responsibility
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a legal term, not a clinical term, to excuse criminal behavior
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the criminal liability at the time of the crime/intent
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seeks to see if the defendant can "appreciate" what they did at the time of the wrongdoing; have to prove that their mental capacity was only "substantially" impaired
