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Durham Rule (1954)

The insanity-defence standard from Durham v. United States (1954) 214 F.2d 862 (DC Circuit): an accused is not responsible if the unlawful act was the product of a mental disease or defect. Criticised for vagueness and for transferring a normative legal question to psychiatric determination; abandoned by the DC Circuit in US v. Brawner (1972).

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