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Sounds like a legal defence
Not sure why you are getting down voted.
But I doubt it would work. I think the vast majority of juries would not even believe such a thing exists let alone believe someone had it. Judges sadly probably wouldn't listen either.
I sat on a murder trial as a jury member. What I saw scared me. People openly admitting they would rather put an innocent person behind bars rather then maybe setting a guilty man free. People just voting how others were voting just so they could get out of there (not really looking at the evidence).
I've seen cases where judges were reading the exact letter of the law and obviously not reading the intent of said law, because of that people got much harsher sentences then was warranted. Sometimes people get found guilty when they shouldn't have been.
Sorry I doubt it would work as a defense, except in some rare cases.
Because the implication is that it's not an actual disorder, just an excuse for rape.
Go to your search engine.
Type in :
“rape accused blames sexsomnia”
Come and share your results with the class .
Because that means it's not an actual disorder?
The only person who ever questioned it was you.
No, that was what you implied. I'm far from the only one who thought so.
Well that’s funny, because you are the only person to express those thoughts.
I’m afraid You’ve chronically misconstrued a very simple sentence.