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On Friday chief prosecutor Iwan Jenkins said “it is now clear that the psychiatrists feel that that would serve no useful purpose and the risk of reoccurrence is very, very small.

 

The judge ordered the jury return a verdict of not guilty. Thomas, of south Wales, had accepted he killed his wife of 40 years.

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Phoenix - Lawyers for a man who admitted stabbing his wife 44 times and drowning her in their swimming pool will argue this week that he should be acquitted of murder because he was sleepwalking at the time.

 

Defense lawyers said Scott Falater, 43, admitted killing his wife and hiding the evidence, but is not guilty of a crime because he has a medical disorder. They plan to present expert witnesses to bolster their argument Thursday.

 

"The thing about sleepwalkers is that sometimes when they get into a task ... it seems that's when they're more prone to violence,'' defense lawyer Mike Kimerer told jurors last week during opening statements. Kimerer said Falater's brain was ''fast asleep'' at the time the January 1997 act took place.

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