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Monday 4 February 2013

judge asked to resign after napping during trial, sending man away for 5 years [Photo]

A Russian judge was asked to resign after dozing off during a criminal trial and then sentencing the defendant to five years behind bars.
Yevgeny Makhno, a judge in the far eastern city of Blagoveschensk, stepped down this week after a video of him sleeping during a fraud trial last summer went viral. He was nicknamed “napping judge,” in some of the clips.
But catching 40 winks was only part of what landed the judge in hot water. Secret video shot during Andrei Naletov’s trial also showed the judge playing on his phone during the proceedings.
Makhno sentenced Naletov to a five-year custodial sentence in a penal colony at the conclusion of the trial.
Naletov’s outraged family leaked the video to rights groups and now the judge might meet the iron hand of Russia’s justice system, Pravda reported.

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