Different Rules for different people

Did your attorney fall asleep during your criminal trial?  Tough shit.

He raised several points of error, including a claim that his Sixth Amendment

right to counsel was violated because he received ineffective assistance of counsel when

his attorney fell asleep while Muniz was being cross-examined by the government.

Id.

at *4-5. The court rejected all of Muniz’s claims of error and affirmed the judgment.

Id.

at *5. It also declined to remand his ineffective assistance claim for an evidentiary

hearing, holding Muniz “ha[d] not established that an evidentiary hearing to substantiate

his position [was] warranted.”

Michigan Supreme Court. Id. Muniz subsequently was denied leave to appeal by thePeople v. Muniz, 726 N.W.2d 18 (Mich. 2007).