A primary purpose of the American Law Institute guidelines for defining the insanity defense was to
A) avoid specifying symptoms of mental illness which might later become obsolete.
B) be more specific and informative to lay jurors.
C) allow greater leeway for expert witnesses to define the concept of mental illness.
D) open the defense to the full range of mental illnesses.
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