Incompetency to stand trial differs from insanity in legal terms in that it:
A) refers to the social context within which the crime was committed.
B) refers to the inability of the defendant to understand the charges against him.
C) refers to the mental state of the defendant when the crime was committed.
D) refers to the impulse to commit a crime due to mental disease.
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