The defense of diminished capacity
A) is the same as the Durham insanity test.
B) asserts that the defendant's acts were involuntary.
C) involves a claim that because of mental illness the defendant did not have therequired actus reus.
D) involves a claim that the defendant did not have the mens rea for the crime charged because of a mental disease or defect.
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