A sentencing judge assessing moral culpability under the Verdins principles is not required to treat the offender's knowledge of wrongfulness as a threshold or determinative factor; rather, it is one consideration in a holistic evaluation that includes the nature and causes of the offending conduct, the causal contribution of mental illness, and the offender's retained capacities.
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