CRM 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Judicial Interpretation, Mental Disorder
18 May 2016
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Something so traumatic that they go into a dissociative state. Supreme court of canada says that they need to have a extremely shocking trigger. Uses average normal person test: rabey 1980, young man who is infatuated with a girl, starts stalking her. She gets fed up and writes a letter stating how much she doesn"t like him and how she actually likes another man. He says that because he was so in love, he had a psychological blow automatism after she said that. Stone (1999) charged with murder of his wife. Just to patch things up they go on a camping trip. On the way an argument erupts, wife constantly making fun of him, yelling at him, mean comments and stuff. At some point he had enough, he got out of the car went for a walk, and then he did not remember anything, after that he remembers standing over his wife with a knife.
