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Diminished Responsibility
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- 1Byrne (case facts)D a sexual psychopath,strangled and mutilated a young woman. Medical evidence suggested he couldn't control himself
- 2Byrne (legal principle)" A state of mind so different from that of an ordinary human being that a reasonable man would term it abnormal"
Has to be at the time of the killing - 3MartinParanoid Personality Disorder
- 4AhluwaliaBattered women's syndrome
- 5SeersDepression
- 6BootsPost natal depression
- 7EdgingtonSchizophrenia
- 8Di Duca (legal principle)The effects of alcohol or drugs is not a medical condition
- 9Wood (legal principle)Alcohol dependency syndrome and drug dependency syndrome are RMC's
- 10Tandy (case facts)Mrs T drank voluntarily so was able to control it. Not Alcohol dependency
- 11Tandy (legal principle)Persistent abuse of alcohol or drugs that leads to brain damage is an RMC
- 12Lloyd (legal principle)More than trivial but less than total
- 13Golds (legal principle)Ask the jury whether any impairment made any real differences to the D's conduct
- 14Dietschmann (case facts)D suffering from an adjustment disorder in the form of a depressed grief reaction to the death of his aunt. He had also been drinking before killing the victim
- 15Dietschmann (legal principle)Doesn't have to be the sole cause
- 16Saunders (legal principle)Jury do not have to accept medical evidence in isolation, other circumstances can be considered
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- Key cases in the defence of diminished responsibility
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