The following excerpt is from United States v. Lynch, 903 F.3d 1061 (9th Cir. 2018):
The United States requests that this case be reassigned to another district judge for resentencing, but we reject this request. Reassignment on remand is highly discouraged, and such a motion will be granted "only in unusual circumstances or when required to preserve the interests of justice." United States v. Wolf Child , 699 F.3d 1082, 1102 (9th Cir. 2012). Such circumstances and interests are not present here. We have articulated three factors relevant to the consideration of whether the particular circumstances of a case meet the high standard required to justify reassignment:
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