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Sleeping lawyer syndrome
Shapiro, Bruce | April 7, 1997 issue

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Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently wrote in the journal The New Yorker of the insomnia he suffers when he sends a death-row defendant to execution. But Kozinski goes through with it, thanks to his confidence that today's capital cases are "meticulously litigated." The idea of a lawyer sleeping through a murder trial may be a little disconcerting, unless one is from Texas, where sleeping lawyer capital cases are a bona fide trend. In the past year alone, the Texas Court of Appeals has turned down three petitions from death-row inmates whose lawyers slept through significant parts of their trials.

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LAWYERS; SLEEP deprivation; LEGAL professions; COURTS; ACTIONS & defenses; PETITION, Right of; KOZINSKI, Alex, 1950-
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