... criminal cases."1 Forensic science has really advanced over the years. The first recorded application of medical knowledge to the solution of a crime was in a Chinese book, His Duan Yu (the washing away of wrongs), written in 1248. It contains a description of how to distinguish drowning and strangulation. These days, we have ways of telling whether the person was drowned intentionally or not and if their ... and physical factors. An individual must undergo a competency evaluation if this claim is made. It cannot be refused. The issue of insanity applies to the mental state of the defen...

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