diminished responsibility in English

limited responsibility, partial legal liability, legal liability with stipulations

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1. This will now allow a plea of diminished responsibility.

2. Thought I was copping a plea on ... diminished responsibility.

3. He denies murder but admits manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

4. He was found not guilty of murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

5. The 1977 Homicide Act introduced the notion of diminished responsibility, which reduces a charge of murder to manslaughter.

6. Also receiving determinate prison sentences are those whose offence is reduced to manslaughter on a combined plea of provocation and diminished responsibility.

7. Should criminals be dealt with as victims of their genetic code, being able to claim diminished responsibility because of a genetic predisposition?

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9. We must investigate what produces solecisms, and not merely Adduce examples.: That was a case where diminished responsibility was not raised at the trial but it was later sought to Adduce medical evidence on the issue.: Editors at the New York Times did not need to be clairvoyant to Adduce the massive evidence to that effect.: It does not require even half an education to guess why he feels