# Symptoms versus legal conclusion

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Updated: 2026-08-12T03:37:55.142Z

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#### Card #05: Symptoms versus legal conclusion

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Summary:

Why serious symptoms do not decide the verdict by themselves.

Body:

[VERIFIED FACT] The Massachusetts criminal-responsibility test asks whether mental disease or defect removed substantial capacity to appreciate wrongfulness or conform conduct to law; a diagnosis alone does not resolve that test. [Massachusetts model instruction](https://www.mass.gov/info-details/model-jury-instructions-on-homicide-i-criminal-responsibility)

[UNKNOWN] Defense expert testimony addressing that ultimate question had not begun by the Day 11 cutoff. [Court TV tracker](https://www.courttv.com/news/lindsay-clancy-trial-opening-statements-set-for-mom-accused-of-killing-her-3-children/)

Links:
- https://www.mass.gov/info-details/model-jury-instructions-on-homicide-i-criminal-responsibility
- https://www.courttv.com/news/lindsay-clancy-trial-opening-statements-set-for-mom-accused-of-killing-her-3-children/

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