• In criminal law, diminished responsibility (or diminished capacity) is a potential defense by excuse by which defendants argue that although they broke...
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  • In English law, diminished responsibility is one of the partial defenses that reduce the offense from murder to manslaughter if successful (termed "voluntary"...
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  • (2002), "The defense of diminished capacity is hereby abolished ... there shall be no defense of ... diminished responsibility or irresistible impulse...
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  • findings. A plea of diminished capacity is different from a plea of insanity in that "reason of insanity" is a full defense while "diminished capacity" is merely...
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  • the court to find the accused guilty of voluntary manslaughter: diminished responsibility and suicide pact. The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 creates the...
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    guilty to murder, but guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. The jury found him guilty of manslaughter, after hearing he had...
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  • freely willed acts. The insanity defense – or its corollary, diminished responsibility (a sort of appeal to the fallacy of the single cause) – can be...
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  • defence of diminished responsibility for notorious child killer Adrian Lim) to testify for Sek in support of his defence of diminished responsibility. Dr Ellard...
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    has a partial defence of either provocation or suffering from diminished responsibility. If the partial defences are successful, this does not result...
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  • defendant has a partial defence, such as extreme provocation or diminished responsibility.: [51]–[65]  In cases of involuntary manslaughter, the actus reus...
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  • conviction in this case downgraded to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility in 1999 after he claimed that he had only killed her due to having...
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    defence of provocation, and by introducing the partial defences of diminished responsibility and suicide pact. It further restricted the use of the death penalty...
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    matter of public policy there shall be no defense of diminished capacity, diminished responsibility, or irresistible impulse in a criminal action...." Murder...
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  • in which her actions were judged to have been committed under diminished responsibility. She is Britain's youngest female killer and was diagnosed with...
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  • prostitutes. At his trial he pleaded not guilty to murder on grounds of diminished responsibility, but was convicted of murder on a majority verdict. Following...
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  • Napper pleaded guilty to Nickell's manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. Napper, who was already detained at high-security Broadmoor Hospital...
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  • Solem case. Dawes Act Curtis Act Checkerboarding (land) Diminished value Diminished responsibility Off-reservation trust land Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal...
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  • Mistake Duress Necessity Insanity Automatism Provocation Alibi Diminished responsibility Consent (does not apply when the assault/battery results in ABH...
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  • intoxication defense is a defense by which a defendant may claim diminished responsibility on the basis of substance intoxication. Where a crime requires...
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  • this was not), she successfully pleaded the partial defence of diminished responsibility under s.2 Homicide Act 1957 on the grounds that fresh medical...
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    challenge unrelated evidence that the defendant was suffering from diminished responsibility which reduced murder to manslaughter, decreasing the starting...
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  • the condition impaired his mental responsibility and thus qualified him for a defence of diminished responsibility. However, DPP Han argued that Teo was...
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  • of the idea that guilty people may use past victimization to diminish the responsibility for their crimes. When the abuser is the victim of the crime...
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  • and granted a re-trial to review his sentence on the grounds of diminished responsibility. After the High Court restored Roszaidi's death sentence in his...
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    edge. In February 1981, the band released their fourth album, Diminished Responsibility which was the final U.K. Subs album to chart in the U.K. In April...
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  • the incident, he stated that Wang qualified for a defence of diminished responsibility against all the three murder charges against him. He diagnosed...
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  • second murder charge was stood down), tried to raise a defence of diminished responsibility to rebut the murder charge against him, but after he was found...
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    maintaining its own security policies. This review was made the personal responsibility of Sir Alan Langlands, who at the time was chief executive of the NHS...
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  • murder, which was later reduced to manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility, and served three years in prison after being denied parole. Martin...
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  • In his trial, Jonaris pled the murder charge with a defence of diminished responsibility, claiming that he was depressed, intoxicated with drugs and heard...
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