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Judge falls asleep during trial, court annuls
verdict
Tuesday March 05, 2013 09:15:19 AM,
IANS
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Moscow:
A court in Russia's far eastern Amur region has annulled a
sentence handed down by a judge who fell asleep during a trial.
A video showing judge Yevgeny Makhno sleeping through defence
lawyer Vladislav Nikitenko's speech in court was posted online in
January, outraging critics of the Russian justice system and
forcing the judge to resign.
Two local businessmen, Andrei Naletov and Sergei Khabarov, who
were sentenced by Makhno to five and six years in jail
respectively for fraud, were released on a pledge not to leave the
town of Blagoveshchensk, said lawyer Nikitenko.
Nikitenko had posted the "Sleeping Judge" video on YouTube.
The sentence was not cancelled because the judge fell asleep,
however, but due to violations in the investigation process, a
court spokesman told RIA Novosti.
Meanwhile, former judge Makhno, who was seen dozing in the
courtroom by almost 60,000 YouTube users, now works as a lawyer
for a major gold-mining company.
Makhno claimed that he was not sleeping, but listening with his
eyes closed.
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