United States v. Georgia R. Freitag

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• holding that a sleeping juror should be removed from the jury if his sleep either makes it impossible to perform his duties or would otherwise deny the defendant a fair trial
• holding that a sleeping juror should be removed from the jury if his sleep either makes it impossible to perform his duties or would otherwise deny the defendant a fair trial
• holding that a sleeping juror should be removed from the jury if his sleep either makes it impossible to perform his duties or would otherwise deny the defendant a fair trial
• holding that a sleeping juror should be removed from the jury if his sleep either makes it impossible to perform his duties or would otherwise deny the defendant a fair trial
• stating that trial court did not abuse its discretion by not conducting further inquiry into how much evidence sleeping juror missed when court had not noticed an “extensive sleeping problem”
• observing that counsel may ask “a witness to remark on the truthfulness of her own testimony [without invading the province of the jury] because the witness’s reaction and response are proper fodder for the jury’s credibility determinations”

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