diminished capacity

a legal defense in which a mental abnormality, due to either intoxication (see intoxication defense) or mental defect, is claimed to have limited the defendant’s ability to form the requisite criminal intent (see mens rea) for the crime with which he or she is charged.

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December 22nd 2024

curvilinear regression

see nonlinear regression.