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Excuses II: Insanity and Infancy


Learning Outcomes

1. Explain why insanity and infancy bar the assignment of responsibility on a general incapacity to abide by the criminal law.
2. Analyze the issue of evidence of mental defect which may be relevant on two issues: voluntariness (actus reus) and mode of culpability (mens rea).
3. Discuss insanity as a third-level defense, an excuse.


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