In which circumstance would a psychiatric forensic nurse examiner determine that it would be appropriate for the defendant and his attorney to consider the legal insanity defense?
a. The defendant experienced auditory hallucinations that he perceived as the voice of God commanding him to drown his child.
b. The accused tampered with the brakes of his wife's car after discovering she had had an affair.
c. The charged inmate shot the drug dealer who refused to give her cocaine when she had no money to buy it.
d. The defendant, frightened because his house had been robbed the night before, assumed his son was a burglar and shot him.
A
The defendant, demonstrating symptoms of psychosis and acting on the direction of command hallucinations, could use the defense of legal insanity because he was unable to recognize his action as wrong due to a psychiatric illness. The other options suggest the defendant knew right from wrong, had the capacity to know the nature and quality of the act, and had the capacity to form intent to commit the crime.
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