 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime - 2000 - 140 pages
...defense lawyers have slept through trial. One of those trials was described by the Houston Chronicle as follows: Seated beside his client — a convicted...to have slept his way through virtually the entire trial.3 My law students often ask me how a judge can preside over such a trial. The judge presiding... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime - 2000 - 166 pages
...lawyers have slept through trial. One of those trials was described by the Houston Chronicle as fellows: Seated beside his client — a convicted capital murderer...to have slept his way through virtually the entire trial.3 My law students often ask me how a judge can preside over such a trial. The judge presiding... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime - 2000 - 148 pages
...afternoon's trial in apparent deep sleep. His mouth kept falling open and his head lolled back on hts shoulders, and then he awakened just long enough to...to have slept his way through virtually the entire trial.3 My law students often ask me how a judge can preside over such a trial. The judge presiding... | |
 | Tara Herivel, Paul Wright - 2003 - 350 pages
...And again. Every time he opened his eyes, a different prosecution witness was on the stand desctibing another aspect of the Nov. 19, 1991, arrest of George...during a capital murder trial. "It's boring," the 72-year-old longtime Houston lawyer explained. . . . Court observers said Benn seems to have slept... | |
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Seated beside his client — a convicted capital murderer — defense attorney John Benn spent much of Thursday afternoon's trial in apparent deep sleep. His mouth kept falling open and his head lolled back on his shoulders, and then he awakened just... 