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Well maybe if the damn lawyers would stop waving their shiny pens back and forth, back and forth, back and….
This month’s Utah Bar Journal published an anonymous letter which says that local judges are falling asleep, at the bench (!), during hearings:
“I’ve seen the problem in more than one county, but since my practice is pretty geographically limited, I’d rather not be identified,” stated the letter. “I would like suggestions on how to wake the snoozing judge. I’d like to think I’m not the only boring attorney in Utah.”
Utah’s Judicial Conduct Commission, meanwhile, says that it’s only received a single complaint about a sleeping judge over the last five years. The problem here is of course that:
Attorneys appearing in court may be hesitant to point out that a judge has drifted off, so the responsibility is on judges to stay alert.
It’s the old “who’s watching the watcher” problem.
Meanwhile, an appellate judge offers this plum wisdom to sleepy judges - get more sleep and drink more caffeine.
Wisdom like that - that’s why he’s a judge, and we’re just lowly blog-writers and blog-readers.
