When a judge is faced with a request to be recused from a case, it’s important that the “public’s faith” in the judicial system is not at risk, experts say. After Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Superior Court Judge Brian House put a gag order on a kindergarten teacher charged with child molestation and then denied a motion to step down from the case without giving a written explanation, he ran that risk, said James Sample, a law professor at Hofstra University in New York.
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