Cape Verde Legislative Decree 4/2003 of 18 November 2003 - PENAL CODE
VOLUME I - GENERAL PROVISIONS
TITLE II - PUNISHABLE DEEDS
CHAPTER I - DEFINING CRITERIA OF PUNISHMENT
Article 18
(Absence of responsibility by reason of psychological abnormality)
1. No one may be considered responsible who, at the time of committing a deed, was incapable of assessing the unlawfulness of the deed, or of conducting himself accordingly, by reason of a psychological abnormality.
2. The provisions of the preceding paragraph shall apply in those cases where a person is wholly intoxicated as a result of having consumed alcoholic beverages, narcotics, psychotropic or toxic substances, or other substances producing similar effects.
3. The possibility of being considered responsible shall not be ruled out if the psychological abnormality or the situation described in the preceding paragraph was brought about by the perpetrator with the intention of committing the deed, or if the carrying out of the deed was or ought to have been foreseen by the perpetrator.
Incapacity - national proceedings
Insanity - national proceedings
Mental disease or defect - national proceedings
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