CPL 300.10 imposes upon the trial court in a criminal case a mandatory duty to deliver a charge to the jury containing certain required instructions. In particular, in a case where the lack of the defendant's criminal responsibility by reason of mental disease or defect has been raised, the court is obliged to deliver a specific charge, in language prescribed in the statute, on the consequences of...
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