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diminished capacity

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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