The ________ holds that individuals cannot be held criminally responsible for their actions if at the time of the crime they did not know what they were doing or did not know that their actions were wrong.

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The M'Naghten rule is a legal standard that states a person cannot be held criminally responsible if, at the time of committing the act, they were suffering from such a defect of reason, from a disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act they were doing, or if they did know it, that they did not know what they were doing was wrong.

The ________ Holds That Individuals Cannot Be Held Criminally Responsible