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A Russian judge has resigned after a video showed him asleep during a trial that ended with him sentencing the defendant to five years in a penal colony.

Critics of the Russian justice system, which has a notoriously high conviction rate, were outraged when the video purporting to show judge Yevgeny Makhno sleeping through a defense lawyer’s speech in court was posted online in January, Russian media reported.

"The Judges Qualification Panel accepted Makhno's resignation from his judge's post," regional judge and panel member Valentina Pozharskaya told state news agency RIA Novosti.

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I've slept with 1,000 men so far - I don't care if people judge me!

Sex addict Crystal Waren

After spotting a gorgeous young man on her way to the shops, Crystal Warren couldn’t wait to speak to him on her way home. She’d spent her whole grocery trip daydreaming about where they could sneak off for some illicit sex.

Two hours later, after flirting outrageously with the total stranger and talking her way into his bed, she was back at home, delighted at how her afternoon had panned out.

But this sexual encounter wasn’t a one-off moment of passion she planned to gossip about later with friends. In fact, it was pretty unremarkable for Crystal, a sex addict, like the character played by Michael Fassbender in the new movie, Shame.

Judge accepts man who killed former lover did not plan it

A Nigerian man who killed his lover was sentenced to 12 years' jail yesterday after pleading guilty to culpable homicide.

Justice Lee Seiu Kin in High Court said that Amanchukwu Chukwuma, 28, had cruelly snuffed out" Ms Liu Shuhui's life, but the judge accepted that the killing of the woman - Amanchukwu's former lover - was not premeditated.

His lawyer, Mr Wendell Wong, argued that Amanchukwu never planned to kill Ms Liu. The judge agreed that he was provoked at the time of the incident.

However, Amanchukwu admitted to strangling Ms Liu after they became involved in a heated quarrel. Ms Liu's highly decomposed body was eventually found only in her underwear by a town council supervisor on December 29, 2009.

Court acquits Anwar, judge says possible ‘samples compromised’

Anwar (centre) is surrounded by press photographers soon after his acquittal.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9 — The High Court today acquitted Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim of a charge of sodomising his former male aide Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan.

Judge Mohd Zabidin Mohd Diah ruled that the prosecution had not done enough to prove Anwar had committed sodomy against Saiful.

“The court could not rule 100 per cent that the DNA samples were not compromised. Without that, the court is reluctant to convict the accused based on the evidence of SP1.

Take action against Saiful for TV3 interview, Karpal tells judge

Lead counsel for Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim Karpal Singh has called on trial judge to act against sodomy complainant Saiful Bukhari Azlan for breaching rules after he gave an interview to TV3, wherein he spoke about the sodomy case and how it had affected him..

"I think the judge should do something. Judges have a duty, you know, on the spot, to issue a show cause letter. I think that is what the judge should do," said Karpal to reporters at the court complex in Jalan Duta.

Judge allows Anwar to interview Najib, Rosmah but up to them to agree

Controversial judge Mohd Zabidin Mohd Diah, often accused of bias against Anwar Ibrahim, surprised the court when he allowed the Opposition Leader's request for Prime Minister Najib Razak and wife Rosmah Mansor to take the witness stand in the ongoing sodomy trial.

JUDGE HORRIFIED BY RAPIST WHO TERRORISED EX-GF'S SIS AND FAMILY

A DISTRICT judge sentenced a rapist to 11 years’ jail and eight strokes of the cane yesterday, saying he was horrified by what the man did.

The man, who said he had been chased out of his own home in late 2005, was taken in by his then 18-year-old fiancee’s family, who offered him food and shelter.
He broke up with her, but turned his attentions on her younger sister, kissing and touching the child inappropriately.

Judge Orders Lindsay Lohan To Get Psychological Counseling

A US judge ordered troubled US actress Lindsay Lohan Thursday to sign up for psychological counseling, a key condition of her receiving probation for an alleged jewelry theft.

At an updated hearing on Lohan, who was banned last month from holding parties while in home detention, Los Angeles Superior Court judge Stephanie Sautner said she had three weeks to enroll for one-on-one counseling.