☩ SOTERIAN GLOSSARY ☩

Living Language Lexicon of the Soteria Covenant

Diminished Capacity

A defense asserting that the defendant's mental state was impaired at the time of the crime — not rising to the level of insanity but reducing the degree of culpability or the level of the offense.

Category: Criminal Law
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