"Sentencing; Reduce Mental Capacity due to Volitional Impairment"

"In U.S. v. McBroom (3rd Cor. 1997), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that a district court could have considered at sentencing the possibility that a defendant suffered from a volitional impairment" [Appelbaum, K L., Grudzinskas, A J. J AM Acad Psychiatry Law, Vol. 26, No.1,1998: p.135]