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For more than eight years, Marilyn's husband has subjected her to physical and psychological abuse. As a result, she has been treated in the emergency room more than 10 times for a variety of injuries from bruises to broken bones. Each time she is abused,
 
  her husband begs for forgiveness. Finally, one night she takes his gun and shoots him as he is sleeping. She is charged with murder. Which of the following is a defense that has been used more often in cases like Marilyn's?
 
  a. the battered woman syndrome
  b. temporary insanity
  c. guilty but mentally ill
  d. self-defense

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A 1954 ruling by a Washington D.C. federal court in Durham v. United States broadened the insanity defense to say that an accused is not criminally responsible if his or her unlawful act was the product of mental disease or defect. This came to be known a
 
  a. mental illness
  b. D.C.
  c. Durham
  d. product


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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: d.

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