Huntington Natl. Bank v. Bossart

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a presumption of prejudice exists where attorney for defendant sleeps through a substantial portion of trial
• holding that a presumption of prejudice exists where attorney for defendant sleeps through a substantial portion of trial
• \Prejudice is inherent in this case because unconscious or sleeping counsel is equivalent to no counsel at all\
• \Prejudice is inherent in this case because unconscious or sleeping counsel is equivalent to no counsel at all\
• “Prejudice is inherent in this case because unconscious or sleeping counsel is equivalent to no counsel at all”
• “When a defendant’s attorney is asleep during a substantial portion of his trial, the defendant has not received the legal assistance necessary to defend his interests at trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).