What if one half of Conjoined twins commits a murder?
In England & Wales the matter would be considered according to all the detailed facts of the incident. If it can be shown that the second twin had no involvement whatsoever and could not have stopped the incident from occuring then there would be grave problems presented to the sentencing judge. The judge would not be able to forciby imprison the inncocent twin. The law recognises that some guilty people can escape justice in certain instances such as this but the law can never accept that an innocent person is incarcerated for an offence they did not commit. Your example is very novel and probably entirely academic. I am not aware that a similar case has been tried in England & Wales. However if it was tried then there could well be issues of a psychological nature to explore in preparing a defence. You must bear in mind that in most practical situations it would be arguable that the twins had acted together.
