Help me please??

I am a high school student and am doing a mock trial for law 12. For the mock trial I am the defence lawyer. So, I need questions for direct examination for the following defece witness Dr. J. Tyrone. I will post Dr. J. Tyrone's part below. Please help me come up with questions. Thanks.





You are a neurophysiologist, a professor in the faculty of medicine at U.B.C., and a specialist in sleep disorders. You were a founding member of the Canadian Sleep society; you established the sleep disorders centre at the University Hospital in Vancouver; and you have written many learned articles on sleep disorders. You were asked by his lawyers to assess Michael Hudson. You have interviewed him extensively and have performed or supervised many clinical tests. You were initially very skeptical when it was suggested that Michael Hudson might have been sleepwalking when he attacked Margaret and Jack Willis. But you have concluded that he indeed was.





The case continues below with details.

Help me please??
I am a licensed psychologist so maybe I can help. I have done a lot of NGRI trials. That means "not guilty by reason of insanity" which is what you are talking about here. In the United States (Canada may be different and you mention Canada) NGRI is granted when a person "by reason of insanity is incapable of understanding the consequences of their actions." So, I would ask the person if they were aware of what they were doing (some people are semi-awake when sleepwalking) and if they had any similar experiences before that could have led them to believe they were capable of comitting this crime.





Personally I would encourage this person to plea it out for an involuntary manslaughter charge, 3.5 years approx depending on your state. I had a patient run over a man in front of his wife and 2 kids on the side of the road, they had pulled over to change a tire on their way to Disney World. His bipolar disorder had kept him awake and he was drifting in and out...he got 3.5 years but served only 2. Not bad for squashing a man in front of his kids on their way to see Mickey Mouse. True story.
Reply:1. Ask him a long drawn out question and you will bore everyone to sleep.