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Diminished responsibility - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Diminished responsibility in English law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In English law, diminished responsibility operates only as a mitigatory defence to reduce what would otherwise have been murder to manslaughter (termed "voluntary" manslaughter for these purposes). ...
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on diminished responsibility (law), legal doctrine that absolves an accused person of part of the liability for his criminal act if he suffers from such abnormality of mind as to substantially impair his responsibility in committing or being a party to an alleged violation.
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D, a sexual psychopath pleaded diminished responsibility, having killed a woman while suffering from violent sexual desires, which he could not resist or had difficulty resisting. The trial judge ruled that such impulses or urges did not fall within the defence.
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Discussion Paper on Insanity and Diminished Responsibility; January 2003; This Discussion Paper is published for comment and criticism and does not represent the final views of the Scottish Law Commission; EDINBURGH: The Stationery Office £16.00 net...
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The majority of men convicted of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility used to receive hospital orders, but are now receiving prison sentences. A sample of offenders convicted between 1966 and 1977 was studied to see the reasons for the change.
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diminished capacity n. Lack of ability to comprehend the nature of a crime one has committed or to restrain oneself from committing a ... ; 1. The McNaghten Rules; 2. Doe–Ray tests of insanity; 3. Diminished responsibility in Scotland; 4. Diminished responsibility in England; 5. Proposals for reform;
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