181 W. Va. 131 - State v. Parsons’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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1. “defendant will be found valid). If, however, the defendant's lower than normal intelligence is not shown clearly to be such as would impair his capacity to understand the meaning and effect of his confession, said lower than normal intelligence is but one factor to be considered by the trial judge in weighing the totality of the circumstances surrounding the challenged confession. Parsons, 381 S.E.2d at 249 ; see State v. Fincher, 309 N.C. 1, 8 , 305 S.E.2d 685, 690 (1983) (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 112 N.C. App. 390 - State v. Brown

2. “When a defendant in a criminal case raises the issue of insanity, the test of his responsibility for his act is whether, at the time of the commission of the act, it was the result of a mental disease or defect causing the accused to lack the capacity either to appreciate the wrongfulness of his act or to conform his act to the requirements of the law ... ’ Syllabus point 2, in part, State v. Myers, 159 W.Va. 353 , 222 S.E.2d 300 (1976).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 200 W. Va. 479 - State v. Lockhart

3. “less than normal intelligence [and] does not have the capacity to understand the meaning and effect of his confession, and such lack of capacity is shown by evidence at the suppression hearing, it is error for the trial judge not to suppress the confession.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 112 N.C. App. 390 - State v. Brown