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<section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="13A-715.1" title_number="13A" title_name="Maryland Code of Military Justice" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Trial Procedure">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>It is an affirmative defense in a trial by court–martial that, at the time of the commission of the acts constituting the offense, the accused, as a result of a severe mental disease or defect, was unable to appreciate the nature and quality or the wrongfulness of the acts.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Mental disease or defect does not otherwise constitute a defense.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Procedures for the defense of lack of mental responsibility will be governed by the rules of use of courts–martial to the extent they do not conflict with State substantive law.</text>
  </level>
</section>
