AK · jury_instructions
Alaska Criminal Pattern Jury Instruction 1.44C
AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE OF INSANITY
"Mental disease or defect" means a disorder of thought or mood that substantially impairs a person's judgment, behavior, capacity to recognize reality, or ability to cope with the ordinary demands of life. It also includes intellectual and developmental disabilities that result in significantly below average general intellectual functioning thatimpairs a person’s ability to adapt to or cope with the ordinary demands of life.
A mental condition that is revealed only by repeated criminal conduct or other antisocial conduct is not a "mental disease or defect" for purposes of the criminal law.
History
Alaska Criminal Pattern Jury Instructions 1.44C, dated Revised 2016. Prepared by the Alaska Criminal Pattern Jury Instructions Committee; published by the Alaska Court System. The Alaska Court System states that these instructions "have not been approved or promulgated by any court or the Alaska Bar Association." Printed in the committee's instruction packet 1.44 (Affirmative Defense of Insanity).
Provenance
- Source
- courts.alaska.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-24
- Edition
- 2026-09-24
- Content hash
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