State v. Eugene C. Baum (A-107-13; 073056)
The jury instructions, taken as a whole, are neither
ambiguous nor misleading because they did not blend,
and explicitly distinguished, the concepts of mental
disease or defect and self-induced intoxication, in
charges that reflected an accurate statement of the
law. The sequence of instructions given by the court,
addressing the diminished capacity defense followed by
the self-induced intoxication instruction, did not
negate the diminished capacity defense.
