• 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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  • 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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    murder, but admitted three counts of manslaughter, on the basis of diminished responsibility, and three further counts of attempted murder. His pleas were...
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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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  • 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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  • Hollinshead. Sabina later pleaded guilty to manslaughter with diminished responsibility, after an apparent episode of folie à deux (or "shared psychosis")...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • prostitutes. At his trial he pleaded not guilty to murder on grounds of diminished responsibility, but he was convicted of murder on a majority verdict. Following...
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  • liability Actual innocence Automatism Consent Defense of property Diminished responsibility Duress Entrapment Ignorantia juris non excusat Infancy Insanity...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • extent to which a person can be held accountable for a crime; see diminished responsibility. Specific duties imposed upon persons to care or provide for others...
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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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  • the lesser included offence of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility on 6 November 2020. After a trial at Minshull Street Crown Court...
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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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    defence of provocation, and by introducing the partial defences of diminished responsibility and suicide pact. It restricted the use of the death penalty for...
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  • affected her mental state, in which case the insanity defense or diminished responsibility defense may be used. Provocation is another defense that may be...
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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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  • guilty of manslaughter or guilty of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility. Lally, Conor; Dunne, Ryan. "Emotional scenes as Stephen Silver...
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  • Rough's killer pleaded guilty to manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility. It emerged that the teenager had been suffering from psychosis...
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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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    liability Actual innocence Automatism Consent Defense of property Diminished responsibility Duress Entrapment Ignorantia juris non excusat Infancy Insanity...
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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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  • 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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  • convicted of murder, later reduced to manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility and served three years in prison, having been denied parole. On...
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  • law series Actual innocence Immunity Mental disorder (Insanity) Diminished responsibility Intoxication Infancy Automatism Alibi Consent Mistake Duress Age...
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