Why Is the Durham Rule So Difficult to Use

question 76

Multiple Choice

Why is the Durham rule so difficult to use?

• A) It does not require that a defendant have total mental incompetence.
• B) It requires the prosecution to prove the defendant is insane.
• C) It does not define mental disease or defect.
• D) It requires that the defendant know the difference between right and wrong.

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Definitions:

Emotion

A complex psychological state involving an individual's subjective experience, physiological response, and expressive behavior.

Myelination

The process in which neurons are coated in a fatty substance, myelin, which contributes to faster neural communication.

Synaptic Pruning

The process by which synapses, neural connections that are seldom used, disappear.

White Matter

Myelinated brain tissue.