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…Kenneth Parks was found not guilty of murder and attempted murder. His defence was sleepwalking, or non-insane automatism as part of a presumed episode of somnambulism. Kenneth returned to normal life and went on to have six children….Did Kenneth Parks use the sleepwalking defence to get away with the perfect murder? If you murder someone while sleepwalking, are you guilty or not guilty? If your eyes are open but your brain is still asleep, did you intend to commit a crime or not? … One in three adults have symptoms of insomnia, and around 22% of us sleepwalk, frequently walking...

Yale University will once again require standardized testing for students applying for admission in the fall of 2025. The decision, announced today, ends the test-optional undergraduate admissions process that had been in place at Yale since the pandemic. According to the announcement, the past four years of test-optional admissions had given Yale what it described as “an invaluable opportunity to think deeply about testing policy and to generate new data and analyses. With testing availability now fully restored for prospective applicants around the world, we have reevaluated our policy with the benefit of fresh insights.” Yale is describing its new...

A 38-year-old woman who fell to her death is believed to have climbed through a window in her 10th storey apartment while sleepwalking, a coroner’s court heard on Thursday (May 12). Ms Ruth Dalumpines Dulfo was found lying motionless at the foot of her block at Laguna Park condominium in Marine Parade at about 7am on Jun 7, 2021. The Philippine national came to Singapore 13 years ago and was working at Coastal Rhythm Cafe and Bar at East Coast Park at the time of her death.

Talk about low-energy . . . Hillary Clinton sleepwalked through her reaction to news of the NYC bombing of last night. View the video and catch the somnambulistic former Secretary of State speaking, without conviction, in a dull monotone. Compare and contrast with Donald Trump’s muscular reaction to the same news, in which he said America needed to get “very tough.” Neither candidate had all the details, and leaders should not of course overreact in such situations. Even so, in tough times we want a president to project strength and determination. Trump passed that test. Hillary needs to go back...

Can you picture it yet?Not just a vague haze of orange hair in the Oval Office, but what Donald Trump would actually do with the White House between 2017 and 2021, maybe even until 2025?If it's too large a prospect to take in all at once, try taking it in small doses. Imagine the man who has suggested killing the children of suspected terrorists - a war crime - appointing Supreme Court justices. Think about a treasury secretary handpicked by a man who bankrupted and was forced to resign from the only company he ever took public. Take a deep...

A Connecticut man accused of robbing an 81-year-old woman outside a casino at knifepoint says he was sleepwalking and has no memory of the alleged incident. An attorney for Winston A. Riley says he will enter a "medical defense" for his client, the Norwich Bulletin reports. 27-year-old Riley was arrested back on the morning of March 18 when the elderly woman said he pulled a large knife on her and demanded her purse while the two were riding a parking garage elevator at the Mohegan Sun casino in New London. Riley claims he was "awakened" by the woman after she...

A man was acquitted of sexually assaulting a young girl after medical experts said he was sleepwalking.Alan Ball, 35, climbed into bed with the child and kissed her on the lips after drinking heavily at a New Year's Eve house party last year.But a judge found him not guilty of sexual assault when he heard two experts agreed Mr Ball was sleepwalking at the time and did not know what he was doing.The former lorry driver today said he lost his job and became a social outcast following the allegations.  Fiorella Brereton, prosecuting, told Preston crown court Mr Ball...

Zzz-mail: What happens when sleepwalkers go online Doctors have reported the first ever case of someone using the internet while asleep, after a sleeping woman sent emails to people asking them over for drinks and caviar. By Roger Dobson Last Updated: 10:43PM GMT 13 Dec 2008 It was only when a would-be guest phoned the next day to accept, that she found out what she had done. The 44-year-old woman, whose case is reported by researchers from the University of Toledo in the latest edition of medical journal Sleep Medicine, had gone to bed at around 10pm, but got up...

CINCINNATI — A lawyer for the man accused of raping a University of Cincinnati student says the encounter could have been consensual because the woman has a history of sleepwalking. Dexter Ford, 52, is charged with raping the 23-year-old woman early Thursday morning near Interstate 71 in Cincinnati. Ford's lawyer, Jeff Adams, said prosecutors told him the woman takes prescription medication and has a sleepwalking condition, a fact that will likely be the core part of Ford's defense. "It goes to consent," he said. "How is he to know she is sleepwalking, if it's a dream 'yes' or a real...

Rape crisis counselors and women's advocates are outraged Thursday after a man in Toronto, Canada was found not guilty of raping a woman because he was sleepwalking at the time, according to a Local 6 News report. Canadian lawyers said Jan Luedecke, 33, suffers from a rare condition called sexomnia. The genetic disorder combines sleepwalking with sexual acts and is often brought on by alcohol, according to the report. The two had met at a party in 2003 and she woke up on the couch to find Luedecke on top of her. He was charged with sexual assault after the...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A state appellate court upheld the murder conviction Friday of a man who said he was sleepwalking when he stabbed and beat his girlfriend to death in a hotel room on Catalina Island. Stephen Otto Reitz is serving a sentence of 26 years to life in state prison for the Oct. 1, 2001, killing of Eva Marie Weinfurter. A three-judge panel of the 2nd District Court of Appeal found that physical evidence and the nature of Weinfurter's injuries suggested that Reitz attacked her while awake. The decision said she was hit with a flower pot and...

<p>Jules Lowe was facing a life sentence for murder but was instead detained under a hospital order after a jury found him not guilty of murder by reason of insanity.</p> <p>Lowe, 32, did not deny the assault on his 83-year-old father Edward but claimed to have no memory of the attack, according to the Press Association.</p>

  NOD GUILTY Mar 18 2005   Sleepwalking pub landlord who smashed up his BMW is cleared of drink-driving By Lila Allen   A PUB landlord who crashed his car while three times the alcohol limit was cleared of drink-driving - because he could prove he is a sleepwalker. Matthew Sadler was tracked down by police after his mangled £18,000 BMW was found in undergrowth next to a busy road. The convertible had run into a lamppost and debris littered the highway. Blood on the driver and passenger seats sparked a police helicopter and dog hunt for the driver....

Mistrial declared in case of man who blamed sex assault on sleepwalking By JOHN CURRAN Associated Press Writer February 4, 2005, 7:15 PM EST BRIDGETON, N.J. -- A mistrial was declared Friday in the case of an accused child molester whose defense was that he was sleepwalking at the time. After 7 hours of deliberations over two days, a jury told Superior Court Judge Richard Geiger it was hopelessly deadlocked. When Geiger questioned them, he was told further deliberations would be fruitless. Prosecutors plan to retry Jonathan Hutchinson, 33, over the incidents, which occurred in the home he shared with...

Everyone's Worst Nightmare Thu Jul 3, 7:55 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo! BERLIN (Reuters) - A German man woke up to find himself stark naked in the middle of a street after sleepwalking from home, police said Thursday. The 37-year-old man called police in the southern town of Buchen at around 6 a.m. after discovering he had left his house keys at home. "The man waited naked for police at the phone booth, who gave him a raincoat to wear," said a police spokesman.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adults appear to have different sleepwalking traits from children, and some may have genetic reasons for engaging in nighttime rambling, according to new research. In the study, investigators found that while children who sleepwalk rarely recall anything about their behavior, more than one third of adult sleepwalkers had some kind of memory or dream associated with the event. In addition, one quarter of adult sleepwalkers had a family history of the behavior. The results were presented this week at the American Academy of Neurology (news - web sites)'s annual meeting in Denver, Colorado, and are...