Article: SLEEP DISORDERS USED AS CRIMINAL DEFENSE.(NEWS/NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL)

Byline: JANE E. BRODY THE NEW YORK TIMES

It is the stuff of television movies and pulp fiction:

A 16-year-old Kentucky girl, dreaming that burglars were breaking into her home and killing her family, got up in her sleep, picked up two revolvers and fired into the dark house, killing her father and 6-year-old brother and injuring her horrified and bewildered mother.

A vacationing detective, recovering from a nervous breakdown, called upon to help solve a seemingly motiveless murder of a bather on a beach in France, realized after finding prints in the sand made by a stockinged foot that was missing a toe that he himself was the perpetrator, ...

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