PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Suicide Watch, Mental Disorder
2 Jan 2019
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101034550: describe the requirements in order to be found ncrmd. In order to be found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder, the accused must be responsible for an act or an omission that was committed while suffering from a mental disorder that rendered that person incapable of: Appreciating the nature and quality of the act or omission and of. Vincent li fulfills the second part of the requirements, knowing that the act was wrong. He thought that god had told him that by killing this person (his victim) he was saving the world from an invasion of aliens. He also stated that he thought that his victim had the ability to come back to life and that is why he kept on attacking him. This detail alone also proves that he was appreciative of the nature and quality of his act.
