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Brickbat: Justice Is Sleepy

Charles Oliver | 5.30.2013 7:00 AM


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A Russian judge has resigned after video showed him apparently sleeping during a trial. Judge Yevgeny Makhno later sentenced the defendant in that case to five years in a penal colony. Officials say that man will receive a new trial.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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