Showing posts with label new trial. Show all posts
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Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Judge dozing during trial won't necessarily be cause for new one.

A new Illinois Appellant Court decision states if a judge falls asleep during a murder trial, it will not necessarily be cause for a new trial, as long as the judge was not dozing through crucial evidence or motions.  They ruled an inadvertent nap is harmless.