心しん神しん耗こう弱じゃく

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Meanings

noun

diminished capacity; diminished responsibility

yojijukugo (four-character idiom)

Legal term for a state where mental capacity is significantly reduced, often due to mental illness, intoxication, or other factors, making a person less accountable for their actions. Used in criminal law contexts.

心しん神しん耗こう弱じゃくが認みとめられ、刑けいが減げん軽けいされた。
Diminished capacity was recognized, and the sentence was reduced.
心しん神しん耗こう弱じゃくの状じょう態たいで犯はん行こうに及およんだと弁べん護ご側がわは主しゅ張ちょうした。
The defense argued that the crime was committed in a state of diminished responsibility.

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Usage patterns

〈人ひと〉が心しん神しん耗こう弱じゃくの状じょう態たいにあるfor someone to be in a state of diminished mental capacity
被ひ告こく人にんは犯はん行こう時じに、心しん神しん耗こう弱じゃくの状じょう態たいにあったと鑑かん定ていされた。
The defendant was assessed to have been in a state of diminished capacity at the time of the offense.
心しん神しん耗こう弱じゃくを理り由ゆうに〈動どう詞し〉to do something (e.g. reduce a sentence) on the grounds of diminished capacity
裁さい判ばん所しょは心しん神しん耗こう弱じゃくを理り由ゆうに刑けいを減げん軽けいした。
The court reduced the sentence on the grounds of diminished capacity.
心しん神しん耗こう弱じゃくと認にん定ていされるto be officially found to have diminished mental capacity
精せい神しん科か医いの鑑かん定ていにより、被ひ告こく人にんは心しん神しん耗こう弱じゃくと認にん定ていされた。
Based on the psychiatrist's assessment, the defendant was officially found to have diminished mental capacity.