Editing Diminished responsibility (section)

===State law===
[[California]] was the first state in the U.S. to adopt the diminished capacity defense, beginning with ''People v. Wells''<ref>''People v. Wells'' 202 P.2d 53 (1949)</ref> and ''People v. Gorshen''.<ref>''People v. Gorshen'' 336 P.2d 492 (1959)</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://myweb.wvnet.edu/~jelkins/lawpsy04/diminished.html |title=Diminished Capacity |access-date=2006-05-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060909112146/http://myweb.wvnet.edu/~jelkins/lawpsy04/diminished.html |archive-date=2006-09-09 }}</ref> The doctrine would soon be abolished by [[ballot initiative]] in 1982 following the negative publicity surrounding the case of [[Dan White]], who had [[Moscone–Milk assassinations|killed George Moscone and Harvey Milk]].  While White's defense team did argue successfully for a ruling of diminished capacity, resulting in a verdict of [[voluntary manslaughter]] rather than [[murder]], an [[urban legend]] that the defense had blamed White's actions on the ingestion of sugar and [[junk food]] (the so-called "[[Twinkie defense]]") sprang up out of inaccurate media coverage.<ref name="Myth">{{cite web
 |last=Pogash
 |first=Carol
 |title=Myth of the 'Twinkie defense': The verdict in the Dan White case wasn't based on his ingestion of junk food
 |newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]
 |date=2003-11-23
 |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/11/23/INGRE343501.DTL&hw=twinkie+defense&sn=001&sc=1000
 |access-date=2007-08-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.snopes.com/legal/twinkie.htm |website=Snopes.com |title=The Twinkie Defense |date=30 October 1999}}</ref> One participant in the debate over diminished capacity rulings waved a Twinkie in the air to make his point.<ref name="Myth"/>  Currently, the ''[[California Penal Code]]'' states (2002), "The defense of diminished capacity is hereby abolished ... there shall be no defense of diminished capacity, diminished responsibility, or [[irresistible impulse]]..."<ref>{{Citation
 |title       = California Penal Code
 |publisher   = California State Legislature
 |at          = sec. 25a, 28b
 |url         = http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=pen&group=00001-01000&file=25-29.8
 |access-date  = 2015-02-22
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304072525/http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=pen&group=00001-01000&file=25-29.8
 |archive-date = 2016-03-04
}}</ref>