You may think having a judge sleeping and snoring during your trial could be grounds for appeal, but that's apparently not the case. In fact, the appeals court ruled that "the mere fact that the judge was asleep for periods of the trial does not demonstrate that the trial had been unfair or that there had been a miscarriage of justice".

Ok, so it's a trial by jury. I get that. But if the judge doesn't have to be awake during the trial for it to be valid, why have one at all? Seems to me this might just be one of those cases (pardon the pun) where the appeal should have gone through.

File that under objection! ZZZzzzzz....

[tags]sleeping judge, mistrial, court appeal[/tags]