People v. Hulitt

How courts have described this case

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• noting that Dr. Smith’s testimony “sounds very much like the former insanity defense done away with by our legislature in 1995”
• discussing the doctrine of diminished capacity and noting that while Illinois does not recognize it as a defense, it may be used to counter the State’s evidence that a defendant possessed the mental state required for a conviction
• discussing the doctrine of diminished capacity and noting that while Illinois does not recognize it as a defense, it may be used to counter the State's evidence that a defendant possessed the mental state required for a conviction
• an expert not present during the commission of a crime “would only be able to testify to an opinion formed some three years after the offense rather than from personal observation at or near the time of the offense”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).