Opinion ID: 2355337
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 9

Heading: Sleeping Jurors

Text: Haight argues that trial counsel was ineffective because he failed to move for a mistrial or make any effort to get factual details into the record regarding the alleged sleeping of jurors during part of the penalty phase. He also contends that the trial judge committed error when he took no action on his own initiative. Haight does not plead this claim with the specificity required by RCr 11.42(2). He does not state which jurors were alleged to be sleeping and he does not indicate when the event occurred, if it actually took place. Haight is not entitled to the requested relief. Sanborn at 911. Haight does not indicate what information the jurors supposedly missed and how that would have changed the outcome of his trial. If defense counsel did see jurors with their eyes closed, there is no evidence that they were sleeping. In addition there is no evidence that the trial judge ever observed the alleged sleeping.