Halverson v. State

(specially concurring).

I do not wish to be obdurate to such an innocent pleasure as sleep, but I stoutly maintain it should be confined to the bedroom and not the courtroom when an attorney is charged with protecting the constitutional rights of his client. It is written: “Sleep, the brother of death.” [Hesiod: *467Theogony (8th Century B.C.)]. William Shakespeare, in Macbeth II. iii, described it as “downy sleep, death’s counterfeit.” So sleep has been characterized as akin to death, at least temporary death, for centuries. It is another world. And it doesn’t belong in the courtroom.

Counsel…