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A mental unstableness defense is often used to avoid criminal liability.

An individual with a
mental disorder that committed a crime must be punished by law. Like normal people, they will
undergo trial proceedings and has the right to defend themselves. The point that an individual
was diagnosed with a mental disorder after the crime was perfected, we can strongly say it is not
exempted by law. Since the situation has no evidence on immediate time before and during the
crime, he has the ability to control his will and thought of the consequences of actions. The cause
of the mental disorder diagnosis after the crime is due to conscience. The individual will be put
to a mental institution for treatments to assess the capacity to trial. On the time that the treatment
is done and has the capacity to stand in the trial legal actions will be started. Relying solely on
the mental disorder of an individual is unsubstantial. Therefore, without evidence that during the
commission of the crime, he or she is not in control, it is right adjudged by the court for criminal
liability. 

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