Voluntary Manslaughter- Diminished Responsibility

Question 1

Byrne (1960)

Answer 1

described “abnormality if mind” as “a state of mind so different from that of ordinary human beings that the reasonable man would term it abnormal”

Question 2

Dowds (2012)

Answer 2

shows that intoxication alone cannot support diminished responsibility

Question 3

Dietschmann (2003)

Answer 3

D can have an abnormality of mental functioning but be intoxicated at the time he does his killing

Question 4

Tandy (1989)

Answer 4

where D is unable to resist drinking, so that it is involuntary, this could amount to diminished responsibility

Question 5

Wood (2008)

Answer 5

difference between alcohol dependency syndrome and where it has not effected the brain and is no longer appropriate