A 1954 ruling by a Washington D.C. federal court in Durham v. United States broadened the insanity defense to indicated that an accused is not criminally responsible if his or her unlawful act was the product of mental disease or defect. This came to be known as the
A) mental illness test.
B) D.C. test.
C) Durham test.
D) product test.
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