This week we're asking the question, can you be held responsible for a crime you committed whilst asleep? How about a murder? And how can you tell the people that are telling the truth from those who are just trying to get away with it?

Sources:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/02/if-you-kill-someone-in-your-sleep-are-you-a-murderer

https://apnews.com/article/c7c3bc37038fdde048fd8e3caf3c84ee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Parks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasomnia

https://decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/907/index.do

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2006/10/27/man-acquitted-of-sleepwalking-murder-running-for-school-trustee-in-durham/

https://sleepforensicmedicine.org/case-studies/sleep-walking/

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-28-mn-3400-story.html

https://www.crimetraveller.org/2017/11/homicidal-sleepwalking/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3621648/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-sleepwalking-killers-conscious/

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/27072/bump-night-when-sleepwalkers-turn-violent