Dr Czeisler forcefully argues that going without sleep can impair judgment: four hours of sleep for four or five days in a row, or staying awake for 24 hours straight, creates a state akin to drunkenness.
"He made a good impression, but it was just a couple of minutes, and to make a judgment you need hours".
A crowd of several thousand of his supporters cheered wildly outside the Johannesburg high court today as it became clear a "not guilty" verdict was being returned after the judge read a lengthy judgment for several hours.
You know, against my better judgment, when that 3 hour, 50 minute assembly was done, I screened it for the executives at my house.
He is the host of a popular television program, "Hour of Judgment," in which he adjudicates the kinds of cases often heard on "Judge Judy" in the United States.
"'The Prophet, Allah's prayer and peace be upon him, says: "The hour of judgment shall not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them, so that the Jews hide behind trees and stones, and each tree and stone will say: 'Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him,' except for the Gharqad tree, for it is the tree of the Jews".
One will see it, I say, as part of a new era, without beginning or end and, in reality, without History, where the idols of Prehistory can blend with the icons of postmodern performances: an unruly and antedated time; a time no longer ruled by succession but by resurrection; a time where one no longer awaits the hour of judgment, to not only dream of the make-believe museum, but to make it.
You learn to deliver judgments in half an hour.
"The complainant was not an impressive witness," he said repeatedly during his hour-long judgment.
In an hour-long judgment, Masipa said the evidence she had heard convinced her Pistorius was "not a violent person", was unlikely to reoffend and had shown remorse.
