The Case Of Jan Luedecke

Imagine waking up and having no idea where you are, no idea what you did and no idea how you got there. That was the case for Jan Luedecke, a Canadian man who was accused of raping a young woman at a party. Jan had been drinking a heavy amount of alcohol while at the party and he passed out on a couch. The next thing he remembers is waking up on the floor. Upon further review, it was found that Luedecke had been suffering from parasomnia. Parasomnia is a condition in which people do unusual and odd things in their sleep. During the trial, all of this information was presented and Luedecke was found not guilty.
It is easy to say that someone is not guilty due to a number of things. They can be mentally incompetent, full of remorse, or for this case, they can be a sleepwalker. It is obvious that Jan Luedeckes consciousness was altered. This is said because not only was he sleepwalking while committing the crime, he also was under the influence of alcohol and he wasn’t actively processing his emotion of being aroused because he was asleep. Imagine waking up and having no idea where you are, no idea what you did and no idea how you got there. That was the case for Jan Luedecke, a Canadian man who was accused of raping a young woman at a party. Jan had been drinking a heavy amount of alcohol while at the party and he
One of the main functions that changes is arousal. This can also go along with the unconscious processing of emotion. Emotion and arousal go hand in hand. One last argument is that Jan was not processing his emotions correctly during the time of the rape. An argument that could be made is that when he began to initiate an intimate relationship with the girl next to him, she had fallen asleep on the couch with him. This can be as simple as the common sense theory of emotion. A stimulus led to an emotion with then led to a bodily