Posted on 03/13/2015 6:57:27 AM PDT by PROCON
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — The "violent sleepwalking" defense worked for a man who strangled his 4-year-old and tried to kill his other two children.
A jury decided unanimously that Joseph Anthony Mitchell is not guilty of murder and attempted murder after an expert witness said he was effectively unconscious at the time of his attacks four years ago.
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Some sleep-walking justice might be in this guy’s future?
You know I wonder if someone will use a sleep walking excuse for pedophile behavior, arguing that they were dreaming while sleepwalking?
BS...damn attorneys...
Once, when I was in my 20’s, I slept walk.
I had left some 3.5” disks out for my Amiga 500, and when I woke the next morning, each and every label had meticulously been peeled off the disks without tearing and reapplied upside down.
I tried to do the same task when I was awake to another disk and utterly failed not to damage the label. People can do weird stuff when they sleep walk.
Also, apparently I can talk when I sleep walk, according to one girlfriend.
I wonder what the jury composition was, given the ethnic undercurrent of this case.
The jurors have free will. Even the slimiest defense attorney can’t force you to do something evil.
I can just imagine how they sorted the jurors.
...damn “expert” witnesses, too.
Whether you’re dumb or evil or sick, if you’re killing innocent people, you need to be put down.
I think your girlfriend reversed the labels as a joke.
Either her or the cat. Cats are sneaky and have bizarre senses of humor.
Way too many ex spurts. This verdict is horsepuckey. The clown should be DEAD.
I went to high school with a guy who’s dad would wake up in the middle of the night thinking he was back in the Pacific fighting Japanese.
After he almost killed his wife for about the umpteenth time they finally had to lock him in a room by himself at night.
If anyone touched him while he was sleeping he thought the Japanese had snuck into his foxhole and were trying to kill him and he would attack.
I carried on a conversation for an hour with a girlfriend, at around two in the morning and never knew I did it ... LOL ...
I would sleepwalk as a child and even as an adult. That being said, I never did anything violent. As a kid, I left the house once and was walking down the street in my nightgown. As an adult, I was “removing imaginary kittens from a tree” and almost fell out of a window. To put a homicide on a sleepwalking event is ludicrous to me. Sounds like the article shows a man with issues that took rage out on kids.
Hey, I resent that "down south" remark.
Fact is the trial took place in Durham, NC a very liberal urban area and college town - Duke University. What's that say about the jury pool?
We have a saying in the south due to so many libs fleeing the liberal paradises of the north that they helped create and bringing their progressive values with them: "Welcome to the south, now go home!"
This case happened 20 miles up from the road from me. As the two SOBs (Sons of Barack) take the white airman up to the ATM , you could see the fear in his eyes. He knew that those two ghetto rats were going to snuff him.
Read the ruling, it's enough to make your blood boil.
Yeah, I sleepwalked as a child, and I would go to the bathroom, hold conversations, navigate myself downstairs to the kitchen to get a snack, etc.
One time, after I had recently switched bedrooms, my mom found me sleeping on the floor in my old, empty bedroom, in the spot where my bed used to be :)
Yes, see, if sleepwalkers was a defense then we would've heard about their
good deeds along with the bad, you know like Murdering children in their sleep.
Good grief.
If he can murder children - even his OWN - while sleep walking - then he is a menace to society - and needs to be under lock and key somewhere
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