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Card #09: Criminal responsibility, not sympathy

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The legal test that controls the defense.

[VERIFIED FACT] The defense must place criminal responsibility in issue, but the Commonwealth bears the burden of disproving lack of responsibility beyond a reasonable doubt. [Massachusetts model instruction](https://www.mass.gov/info-details/model-jury-instructions-on-homicide-i-criminal-responsibility)