{"id":629,"date":"2008-10-18T17:08:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T16:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=629"},"modified":"2008-10-18T17:25:50","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T16:25:50","slug":"involuntary-sexsomnia-sleep-sex-can-be-a-valid-legal-defence-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":"Involuntary &#8220;sexsomnia&#8221; &#8211; sleep sex &#8211; can be a valid legal defence &#8211; in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 17 October\u00a02009, the Ontario Court of Appeal\u00a0ruled that involuntary &#8220;sexsomnia&#8221; &#8211; sleep sex &#8211; can be a valid legal defence. This is the first time a superior court, any where in the world has ruled on the defence, although many defendants have been acquitted at trial.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place in\u00a02003,\u00a0when the victim woke up\u00a0at a late-night party and found the defendant on top of her.<\/p>\n<p>The appeal court ordered a new trial only to decide whether the defendant, Mr. Luedecke should be acquitted outright, or be found not criminally responsible on account of a mental disorder.<\/p>\n<p>News report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/LAC.20081018.SEXSOMNIA18\/TPStory\/National\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 17 October\u00a02009, the Ontario Court of Appeal\u00a0ruled that involuntary &#8220;sexsomnia&#8221; &#8211; sleep sex &#8211; can be a valid legal defence. This is the first time a superior court, any where in the world has ruled on the defence, although many defendants have been acquitted at trial. The incident took place in\u00a02003,\u00a0when the victim woke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}