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Hallucination |
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HALLUCINATION, med. jur. It is a species of mania, by which "an idea
reproduced by the memory is associated and embodied by the imagination."
This state of mind is sometimes called delusion or waking dreams.
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Montes' appeal said the trial judge should have permitted the jury to consider ``whether (defendant's) hallucinatory state caused him to harbor an honest belief, albeit unreasonable, in the need to use deadly force in self-defense in order to negate the malice component of murder and reduce the offense to voluntary manslaughter. In Old Worldy this hallucinatory state takes the form of what Thornton calls the "haunted gap" between sound and image. |
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