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This happened on Tuesday rather than today. 

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For the past few days I've been shadowing a barrister, and they're currently working as the prosecution on a murder trial. Each day of the trial basically takes up most of the day; you get to court at 9:30am, proceedings begin at about 10am, breaking at 1pm for an hour for lunch, and then going until about 4pm. 

The trial began on Monday with the opening summary, where the prosecution essentially present the series of events and introduce the case to the jury. This was all pretty interesting to me as I had no prior knowledge of the case, and some witnesses were also brought in too. I paid attention throughout all of it. 

That night, it was a friend's birthday so she was having a party. I didn't get home until about 1am, only got about 7 hours sleep, so I turned up at court at 9:30 on the Tuesday morning hungover and shattered. That Tuesday was basically a retread of the day before, just in more detail. 

I was sitting in the public gallery which was a collection of folded seats a bit like you find in the cinema, adjacent to the dock where the defendant was. 

At some point after lunch, I began to fall asleep. I wasn't up against any wall, I didn't have anything to lean on, and I was sitting on the corner of the gallery with the jury about a meter away from me. I was sitting on the lower row of chairs, with steps right next to me leading up to the jury. 

You can probably guess what happened next. I fall asleep, and initially nobody notices - that is, until I lean over too far, and fall off my chair hitting my head right on the edge of the steps leading up to the jury, giving myself a deep cut and concussion. 

All the proceedings were interrupted as I was led out of the courtroom, befuddled and still half asleep trying to work out what the hell had just happened. The judge was actually really nice about it and met me afterwards to check if I was okay.

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<bot>: Fell asleep in court mid-murder trial after getting no sleep the night before, cutting my head open on some steps and concussing myself. Embarrassed myself in front of everyone.