The moment a Russian judge fell ASLEEP during trial… before waking up and sentencing businessman to five years hard labour
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | February 4, 2013 10:42A Russian judge who was filmed falling asleep in court before waking up and sentencing the accused to five years hard labour, has resigned.
Judge Yevgeny Makhno of Blagoveshchensk City Court was presiding over the trial of Andrei Naletov a businessman charged with fraud.
But midway through the trial he was filmed by members of the Naletov’s outraged family slumped in his chair with his head cocked to one side during a defence lawyer’s speech.
At first he argued that he has been listening with his eyes closed, but he finally stepped down this week after the clip went viral over the internet.
Regional judge Valentina Pozharskaya told state news agency RIA Novosti: ‘The Judges Qualification Panel accepted Makhno’s resignation from his judge’s post.’
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