Can a judge be disqualified for bias and prejudice?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from United States v. Sclafani, 487 F.2d 245 (2nd Cir. 1973):
Disqualification is warranted and appropriate only if the alleged bias and prejudice stems from an extrajudicial source and has resulted in the formulation of an opinion on the merits not based upon what the judge has learned by his participation in the proceedings before hima situation totally absent here. United States v. Grinnell Corp., 384 U.S. 563, 583 (1966).
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