​The Defense of Diminished Capacity

question 95

Multiple Choice

​The defense of diminished capacity

• A) ​is the same as the Durham insanity test.
• B) ​asserts that the defendant's acts were involuntary.
• C) involves a claim that because of mental illness the defendant did not have therequired actus reus.
• D) ​involves a claim that the defendant did not have the mens rea for the crime charged because of a mental disease or defect.

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