Perhaps AM was napping!
Sleep-Walking and Sleep-Driving DEFENSE
Kenneth Parks drove 23 km while asleep and killed his mother in-law. He was fully acquitted because it was determined that he was sleepwalking. But is he really innocent?
www.psychologytoday.com
A Durham County man who said he wasn't aware he had killed his son more than four years ago because he was sleepwalking at the time was found not guilty of the crime Wednesday.
www.wral.com
The very idea that a person could commit crimes while sleeping is unsettling at best. Criminal law requires a voluntary act to convict a defendant of a crime. That being said, unconscious individuals committing even the most heinous crimes, including murder, have been able get away with it entirely if they can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the act they committed was involuntary.