Great legal precedents.

[theweaselking]

From United States v. Ragin, American 4th Circuit Court of Appeals: If your lawyer slept through the trial, you don't have to prove that his being awake would have mattered, you just have to prove he was asleep and the courts will assume that an unconscious counsel was probably not an effective one.

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[resonant.livejournal.com]

Makes sense.