So said a Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge to the lawyers in a murder trial as you can read by clicking here. The Eighth District Court of Appeals reversed the convictions of Arif Majid and remanded the case for a new trial because the trial record showed that a juror was clearly sleeping a number of times during trial. The Court of Appeals said the sleeping juror violated Majid's right to due process.
"I saw it. So what. Let him sleep. You guys picked the jury, I didn't."
June 25, 2009
