“You claim to be a teacher, yet you cannot properly employ the word ‘brevity’? Brevity ONLY refers to a short duration of time, or a conciseness in speech.”
OMG we are back to this again!? Yeah...I meant brevity...the brevity of his crime...as in his momentary lapse of reason.
Then you are a fool engaged in pure legal folly. There is no such concept in the legal world as the 'brevity of crime'. It is a binary condition: You have committed the crime, or you have not.
There IS a concept known as 'mens rea', which translates to 'the guilty mind'. In the tortured and mangled way you have chosen to express the concept, that of 'brevity of the crime', I would STILL remind you that absence of 'mens rea' only would alter the charge. It still is a crime. Think of it, comparatively, to Involuntary Manslaughter (absence of 'mens rea') versus Murder (presence of 'mens rea').
I'm not even a lawyer and I'm schooled in this topic. Pray, what is it you teach?