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Diminished Capacity

March 14, 2017 by: Content Team

Diminished capacity is a legal defense used by a defendant to argue that, while he admits to having broken the law, he should not be held fully criminally liable due to his “diminished” mental state at the time. Diminished capacity is a partial defense, which requires the defendant to have committed the crime while in a very specific state of […]

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