Diminished Capacity Can Describe a Mental Condition Short of Insanity

question 3

Multiple Choice

Diminished capacity can describe a mental condition short of insanity that will exonerate the accused or lessen the crime for which s/he is convicted if the person

• A)can prove pure legal impossibility.
• B)can show that he or she abandoned the crime while still in a sane mental state.
• C)raises the condition as a failure of proof defense,negating an element of the crime,a mens rea use of the defense.
• D)raises the defense that possession forced him or her to act under duress.

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