Illinois Administrative Code
Title 95 - VETERANS AND MILITARY AFFAIRS
Part 400 - ILLINOIS MANUAL FOR COURT-MARTIAL AND NONJUDICIAL PUNISHMENT
Subpart G - TRIAL PROCEDURES
Section 400.870 - Defense of Lack of Mental Responsibility

a) 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. Mental disease or defect does not otherwise constitute a defense.

b) The accused has the burden of proving the defense of lack of mental responsibility by clear and convincing evidence.

c) Whenever lack of mental responsibility of the accused with respect to an offense is properly at issue, the military judge shall instruct the members of the court as to the defense of lack of mental responsibility under Code Section 50a and charge them to find the accused guilty, not guilty or not guilty only by reason of lack of mental responsibility.

d) Subsection (c) does not apply to a court-martial composed of a military judge only. In the case of a court-martial composed of a military judge only, whenever lack of mental responsibility of the accused with respect to an offense is properly at issue, the military judge shall find the accused guilty, not guilty ornot guilty only by reason of lack of mental responsibility.

e) Notwithstanding the provisions of Code Section 52, the accused shall be found not guilty only by reason of lack of mental responsibility if: