Which of the following is NOT related to the M'Naghten ruling decreed by an English court more than 150 years ago?
A) It concerns a person's mental state at the time a crime is committed.
B) It states that individuals are not responsible for criminal behavior if they do not know what they are doing.
C) It states that individuals are not responsible for their behavior if they don't know that what they are doing is wrong.
D) It is based on a case in which paranoid delusions influenced an individual to actually kill the British prime minister.
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