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DeCS
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Descriptor English:
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Insanity Defense
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Descriptor Spanish:
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Defensa por Insania
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Descriptor Portuguese:
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Defesa por Insanidade
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Synonyms English:
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Criminal Insanity
Defense, Insanity
Insanity, Criminal
M'Naghten Rule
McNaughton Rule
Rule, M'Naghten
Rule, McNaughton
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Tree Number:
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F04.096.544.335.528
I01.198.780.937.469.528
I01.880.604.583.310.528
N03.706.535.351.528
SP9.060.020.010
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Definition English:
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A legal concept that an accused is not criminally responsible if, at the time of committing the act, the person was laboring under such a defect of reason from disease of the mind as not to know the nature and quality of the act done or if the act was known, to not have known that what was done was wrong. (From Black's Law Dictionary, 6th ed) |
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See Related English:
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Imputability
Mental Competency
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History Note English:
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91(85); was see under FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY 1985-90; was MCNAUGHTON RULE see under FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY 1969-84; was MCNAUGHTON RULE see under JURISPRUDENCE, PSYCHIATRIC 1968
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Allowable Qualifiers English:
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Record Number:
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7472
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Unique Identifier:
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D007298
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Similar:
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DeCS
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