In Which Circumstance Would a Psychiatric Forensic Nurse Examiner Determine

question 6

Multiple Choice

In which circumstance would a psychiatric forensic nurse examiner determine that it would be appropriate for the defendant and his attorney to consider the legal insanity defense?

• A) The defendant experienced auditory hallucinations that he perceived as the voice of God commanding him to drown his child.
• B) The accused tampered with the brakes of his wife's car after discovering she had had an affair.
• C) The charged inmate shot the drug dealer who refused to give her cocaine when she had no money to buy it.
• D) The defendant,frightened because his house had been robbed the night before,assumed his son was a burglar and shot him.

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