新西兰最高法院维持对强奸罪的定罪,拒绝为睡眠障碍辩护。 New Zealand Supreme Court upholds rape conviction, rejecting sleep disorder defense.

新西兰最高法院驳回了Damin Peter Cook对其强奸定罪提出的上诉。 The New Zealand Supreme Court has dismissed Damin Peter Cook's appeal against his rape conviction. 库克辩称,2019年,他强奸一名昏迷妇女时,他睡着了,并患有一种叫性失眠的睡眠紊乱症。 Cook argued he was asleep and suffering from a sleep disorder called sexsomnia when he raped an unconscious woman in 2019. 法院裁定,他的辩护是精神错乱,而不是一种自闭症,维持对他的定罪,将他的刑期减为七年。 The court ruled that his defense was one of insanity, not a form of automatism, and upheld his conviction, reducing his sentence to seven years.