Dillon v. State Road Commission

How courts have described this case

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• adding that “[w]hile the two may be logically related, only the latter is admissible to negate the mens rea element of an offense”
• noting that ”[t]hrough the Act, Congress intended to prohibit the presentation of evidence of mental disease or defect, short of insanity, to excuse conduct”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).