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2014 Arkansas Code
Title 5 - Criminal Offenses
Subtitle 1 - General Provisions
Chapter 2 - Principles of Criminal Liability
Subchapter 3 - Mental Disease or Defect
§ 5-2-303 - Admissibility of evidence to show mental state.

AR Code § 5-2-303 (2014) What's This?

Evidence that the defendant suffered from a mental disease or defect is admissible to prove whether the defendant had the kind of culpable mental state required for commission of the offense charged.

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