Homeowners Fin. Co. v. Reliable Mech. Contractors, LLC

How courts have described this case

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• upholding exclusion of mental disease or defect evidence when defendant did not proffer tire evidence as tending to prove the disease or defect prevented him from forming required mental state
• no error to exclude psychologist’s expert testimony proffered in furtherance of theory of defense when evidence irrelevant to mens rea defense
• expert testimony irrelevant when it does not tend to demonstrate defendant is unable to form requisite intent or does not support mental disease or defect defense as a matter of law
• “crime of aggravated robbery requires proof only of general intent”
• mental disease or defect negates intent element of crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).