Traffic trance
The lawyer for a policeman suspended for falling asleep on the job says that he will take a hypnotist to court to show that his client had been “lulled into a trance” by the traffic he was supposed to watch Patrolman Robert Lenart, aged 29,, was suspended without pay in September after being found guilty by the Township Council of sleeping on the job while seated behind the wheel of his parked police car while on traffic watch Patrolman Lenart asserts that the traffic had put him into a hypnotic trance, and his lawyer says that the hypnotist will support the assertions in court—Franklin Township, New Jersey.
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Press, 21 April 1984, Page 12
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