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R v. Pora (2015 UKPC)

Judicial Committee of the Privy Council decision quashing Teina Pora's New Zealand murder conviction based on neuropsychological evidence that FASD-related frontal-lobe impairment made his false confession neurologically explicable.

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BNS § 22BSA § 39Diminished responsibilityFoetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)MacArthur Law and Neuroscience ProjectMiller v. Alabama (2012)NeurolawPrefrontal cortex (PFC)Roper v. Simmons (2005)

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