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  2. Vaas Montenegro - Wikipedia

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    A four-part live action webseries named The Far Cry Experience, which stars Mando as Vaas, was released to promote Far Cry 3. [12] Set a few days before the events of Far Cry 3 , Vaas captures and tortures to death fictionalized versions of Christopher Mintz-Plasse and his cameraman, who were engaged by Ubisoft as a part of a survival challenge ...

  3. Far Cry 3 - Wikipedia

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    Far Cry 3 is the first game in the series to use the Dunia 2 game engine, a heavily modified and upgraded version of the Dunia engine used in Far Cry 2. The Dunia 2 engine was made to improve the performance of Dunia-based games on consoles and to add more complex rendering features such as global illumination.

  4. M'Naghten rules - Wikipedia

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    The House of Lords delivered the following exposition of the rules: . the jurors ought to be told in all cases that every man is to be presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his crimes, until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction; and that to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the ...

  5. Insanity - Wikipedia

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    In contemporary usage, the term insanity is an informal, un-scientific term denoting "mental instability"; thus, the term insanity defense is the legal definition of mental instability. In medicine, the general term psychosis is used to include the presence of delusions and/or hallucinations in a patient; [ 1 ] and psychiatric illness is ...

  6. Catch-22 (logic) - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Heller coined the term in his 1961 novel Catch-22, which describes absurd bureaucratic constraints on soldiers in World War II.The term is introduced by the character Doc Daneeka, an army psychiatrist who invokes "Catch-22" to explain why any pilot requesting mental evaluation for insanity—hoping to be found not sane enough to fly and thereby escape dangerous missions—demonstrates ...

  7. Divine madness - Wikipedia

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    According to June McDaniel and other scholars, divine madness is found in the history and practices of many cultures and may reflect religious ecstasy or expression of divine love. [3] Plato in his Phaedrus and his ideas on theia mania , the Hasidic Jews , Eastern Orthodoxy , Western Christianity , Sufism along with Indian religions all bear ...

  8. United States federal laws governing defendants with mental ...

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    The pre-1984 law did not have the same stringent 30- and 45-day time limits for examinations, but merely provided that "For the purpose of the examination the court may order the accused committed for such reasonable period as the court may determine to a suitable hospital or other facility to be designated by the court."

  9. Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, the 1984 act shifted the burden of proof to the defendant, who must show "clear and convincing evidence" of the meeting the legal definition of insanity. [ 27 ] [ 26 ] [ 20 ] [ 24 ] [ 28 ] Previous legislature had placed the burden of proof on the prosecutor, who was required to show beyond a reasonable doubt the defendant of the ...