Do I understand the outrage correctly:
      either
            [a] there is no such thing a sleepwalking;
      or
            [b] if there is such a thing as sleepwalking,
            then full criminal culpability exists for all acts committed in
that sub-conscious state,
      and the outrage is that the court could not understand [a] and [b]?

      If you have lived with a sleepwalker, then these facts are not all
that startling.  My personal favorite was finding a roommate in the kitchen
"playing the back nine" in full golfer regalia, oblivious to the hitch in
his swing cause by the cupboards.  Even in his dreams he could not break
par.

Michael

Professor Michael J. O'Hara, J.D., Ph.D.
Finance, Banking, & Law Department        Editor, Journal of Legal
Economics
College of Business Administration        (402) 554 - 2014 voice fax (402)
554 - 3825
Roskens Hall 502                    www.AAEFE.org
University of Nebraska at Omaha           www.JournalOfLegalEconomics.com
Omaha  NE  68182
[log in to unmask]
(402) 554 - 2823 voice  fax (402) 554 - 2680
http://cba.unomaha.edu/faculty/mohara/web/ohara.htm