It covers the situation where the defendant does not know what he is physically doing.
"A defendant knows all the people" who might come forward.
"How can you prove a defendant knew the weight of a drug he possessed?"
But the defense team member said the defendants did not know that the money came from drug sales.
Because of a mental disorder, the defendant did not know what he or she was doing.
It is always easier for law enforcement if defendants do not know their rights.
"The defendants knew about my rights, but went ahead anyway, and they refused to stop when I asked them to."
A defendant at the trial did not know what witnesses would be called against him.
Previously, for almost a century, the test was whether the defendant knew right from wrong.
You cannot focus on the precision of a question and ignore what the defendant knows.