Defense: Mental Disease or Defect

Same: Admissibility of Evidence Showing. Same: Procedure for Assertion of. Psychiatric Examination and Procedure. Acquittal: Order for Civil Commitment. Acquittal: Verdict Must State Reason as Mental Disease Defect. Acquittal: Court Order of Commitment or Release; Petition for Discharge. Mental Disease: A Bar to Proceeding or Sentence. Same: Hearing to Determine. Same: Hearing Procedure for Commitment and Release. Same: Commitment as Exonerating Bail. Same: Hearing and Procedure When Mental Disease or Defect Occurs After Sentence. Transfer of Committed Person Off-Island: Hearing and Notice to Attorney General Required. Defense: Mental Disease or Defect. A person is not criminally responsible for conduct if at the time of such conduct, as a result of mental illness, disease or defect, he lacked substantial capacity to know or understand what he was doing, or to know or understand that his conduct was wrongful, or to control his actions.