He was again arrested, but his aunt, Maria Bakunin, who at the time was a professor of chemistry at the University of Naples, succeeded in having him released by convincing the authorities that her nephew was " non compos mentis ".
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Furthermore, we have no idea how they deal with issues of " non compos mentis ", for example it may allow for involuntary commitment to a secure mental facility for life, which would allow for reasonable exceptions to their 21-year maximum sentence.
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In Finland, punishments can only be administered if the accused is " compos mentis ", of sound mind; not if the accused is insane ( " syyntakeeton ", literally " unable to guarantee [ shoulder the responsibility of ] guilt " ).
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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in England, as suicides came to be seen more and more as an act of temporary insanity, many coroner's juries began declaring more suicide victims as " non compos mentis " rather than " felo de se ".
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:: Actually, jurisdictions vary wildly in just how they treat non compos mentis and what is called the " right to consent ", including who is empowered to make those decisions and what manner of expert testimony ( medical or otherwise ) will be allowed.
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After the civil war, political and social changes, judicial and ecclesiastical severity gave way to official leniency for most people who died by suicide . " Non compos mentis " verdicts increased greatly, and " felo de se " verdicts became as rare as " non compos mentis " had been two centuries earlier.
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After the civil war, political and social changes, judicial and ecclesiastical severity gave way to official leniency for most people who died by suicide . " Non compos mentis " verdicts increased greatly, and " felo de se " verdicts became as rare as " non compos mentis " had been two centuries earlier.
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In the finding of a jury, the deceased who was stigmatized " felo de se ", would be excluded from burial in consecrated ground and would forfeit their estate to the Crown, while these penalties would not apply to the deceased affirmed " non compos mentis ", i . e . deemed to be insane.
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For your information : the term Compos mentis in my language ( Dutch ) has the same basic meaning in legal terms as in English, although the approach is in Dutch more from the neutral side, as Non compos mentis holds implicitely a judgement about the status of the mind and therefore the term : Non compos mentis seems like a prejudgement.
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For your information : the term Compos mentis in my language ( Dutch ) has the same basic meaning in legal terms as in English, although the approach is in Dutch more from the neutral side, as Non compos mentis holds implicitely a judgement about the status of the mind and therefore the term : Non compos mentis seems like a prejudgement.
