Criminal courts are stingy about finding such exculpatory madness, requiring a disability so severe, the defendant didn't even know the crime was wrong.

Mitchell is a superior court judge, working on felony trials in LA's criminal courts, and he's the one who brought running to the Midnight Mission.

Unlike the English, the Scots retain a "not proven" verdict in their criminal courts, and the unappealing prospect in sight is of this being the effective outcome of the Lockerbie case.