35 Cal. 4th 964 - People v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
25
cited by 25 later decisions
1
states following
August 2016
most recently cited
25 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Crane v. Kentucky · 25 Cal. 3d 668 - People v. Flannel · Montana v. Egelhoff · 32 Cal. 3d 307 - People v. Wickersham
Most-quoted passages
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“The defense of diminished capacity is hereby abolished. In a criminal action, ... evidence concerning an accused person's intoxication, trauma, mental illness, disease, or defect shall not be admissible to show or negate capacity to form the particular purpose, intent, motive, malice aforethought, knowledge, or other mental state required for the commission of the crime charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“to a case in which the defendant's actual, though unreasonable, belief in the need to defend himself was based on delusions and/or hallucinations resulting from mental illness or voluntary intoxication, without any objective circumstances suggestive of a threat.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“As a matter of public policy there shall be no defense of diminished capacity, diminished responsibility, or irresistible impulse in a criminal action. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
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