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brutforce

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Some scholars advocate eliminating the insanity defense and replacing it with a test to assess the presence or absence of a culpable ________ state in a defendant who is thought to be suffering from mental disease or defect.
 
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Question 2

________ capacity is a defense based on claims of a mental condition, which may be insufficient to exonerate a defendant of guilt but that may be relevant to specific mental elements of certain crimes or degrees of crime.
 
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mcarey591

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Reply #1 on: Aug 17, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: mental

Answer to Question 2

Answer: Diminished


brutforce

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Reply 2 on: Aug 17, 2018
Excellent

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