{"data":{"id":"us-gu/9-gca-7.16","jurisdiction":"us-gu","citation":"9 GCA § 7.16","heading":"Defense: Mental Disease or Defect.","body":"A person is not criminally responsible for conduct if at the time of such conduct, as a result of mental illness, disease or defect, he lacked substantial capacity to know or understand what he was doing, or to know or understand that his conduct was wrongful, or to control his actions.","path":["Title 9: Crimes and Corrections","Chapter 7: Exemptions and Defenses","ARTICLE 2: MENTAL RESPONSIBILITY"],"source_url":"https://col.guamcourts.gov/sites/default/files/09gc007_Q.pdf","current_through":"P.L. 38-133 (June 4, 2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-27T02:45:08Z","sha256":"b048a87517a1c74f83430ef5ed4486cf04ba924288f63dc73a2d57e50ca1b8ae","source_id":"us-gu","stale":false,"prev":"us-gu/9-gca-7.10","next":"us-gu/9-gca-7.19"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}