Acquittal: Verdict Must State Reason as Mental Disease Defect

Whenever a plea of not guilty by reason of mental illness, disease or defect is entered and the defendant is acquitted on the plea, the verdict or, if trial by jury has been waived, the finding of the court and the judgment shall so state. SOURCE: M.P.C. § 4.03 (3); *Cal. § 535 (T.D. 2 1968); Mass. ch. 263 § 27(c), N.J. § 2C:4-7 (c). COMMENT: Again, a new Section simply requiring that acquittal for reason of mental illness, etc., be placed upon the record of the case as such.