Automatism (law) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In the Criminal Law, automatism is a defense to liability. Except in the case of strict liability offences, a crime must contain two elements: the actus reus or "guilty act", and the mens rea or...
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[General Defences - Automatism]; D was behind the wheel when his car collided with another; at his trial on a charge of dangerous driving, he claimed he had been overcome by an unknown illness and had been unconscious. ... [General Defences - Automatism] ; D and his girlfriend V each took a quantity of LSD (a...
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Defendant has the evidential responsibility to prove automatism. Results in complete acquittal, and hence the courts are reluctant to entertain it save in exceptional cases (whereas with insanity the court has sentencing options despite the special verdict).
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By raising evidence of automatism, an accused puts his or her sanity in issue. Pursuant to the mental disorder rules, the automatism may be proved to have been caused by mental disorder, and the accused would be found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder.
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24 To associate fundamentally inconsistent defences like automatism and self‑defence with each other entails serious risks for the proper conduct of the trial, the assessment of the facts and the determination of the parties’ legal situation by the jury.
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CASES ON AUTOMATISM ... He contended that he had not noticed the flashing lights of the parked vehicles because he had been in a state of automatism, referred to as "driving without awareness", induced by "repetitive visual stimulus experienced on long journeys on straight flat roads".
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Sleepwalking as Automatism ... 1. A recent murder prosecution in Queensland has put in relief the issue of sleepwalking and particularly the question whether it can form the basis for a defence of insanity (disease of the mind) or automatism. If the former, the accused should be found not guilty and detained indefinitely in...
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[Developments in insanity and the related defences of automatism and substantially impaired responsibility over the course of the century are reviewed.
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a defence of automatism was wrongly admitted since the defence did not put intent in issue. In Baxter's case it is clear that if the ...
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