McDonald v. United States

McDonald v. United Santates, 312 F.2d 847 (D.C. Cir. 1962), is a criminal case that defined mental disease or defect as referred to in an insanity defense - "includes any abnormal condition of the mind which substantially affects mental or emotional processes and substantially impairs behavior controls."[1]

References

  1. ↑ Insanity, Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice 736-40 (1983); Abraham Goldstein
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