Would you please pass the coffee?

sleeping_in_chair1.jpgThis earlier post noted that, after some early sparks, the ongoing criminal trial of the Enron Broadband case has not exactly been a toe-tapper.
In that regard, the Wall Street Journal passes along the following exchange that took place earlier in the trial between defense lawyer Jack Zimmermann and U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore:

Mr. Zimmerman: Judge, while we don’t have the jury here, can I get some guidance? If we see a juror that’s sleeping, what do you want us to do?
Judge Gilmore: That’s y’all’s problem. That means the case is boring.
Mr. Zimmermann: How do we alert the Court?
Judge Gilmore: What am I supposed to do? Y’all are boring them to death. Does anybody else want to see that? It says just what I said. What are we supposed to do? God, how are we going to stay awake through two months of this? I can barely stay awake. I don’t even drink coffee and I’m drinking it every day.

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