State v. Sessions

How courts have described this case

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• indicating that diminished capacity is partial defense which establishes defendant’s inability to form specific intent
• indicating that diminished capacity is partial defense which establishes defendant's inability to form specific intent
• defining same and discussing that the lesser included offenses of lewdness and sexual battery have a general intent element
• “[People v Wells, 33 Cal 2d 330; 202 P2d 53 (1949)] is credited with beginning the diminished capacity in California”
• all holding no error in refusing to grant instruction if point is covered in another instruction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).