[Saundra Duffy]

The judge, W. Douglas Baird, refused to take himself off the case yesterday.

How strange! Think about it. If you were a judge and one of the parties involved objected to you because they thought you might be biased, WOULDN'T YOU STEP ASIDE?! This is weird. Baird must have some axe to grind or a point to make. Baird and Greer are not very gracious, are they.

[nicmarlo]

It's not wholly unusual for 1) a judge to be asked to recuse himself and 2) for a judge to say they won't. However, IMHO, this judge has shown CLEAR BIAS by announcing, before trial, that what Bush was doing was denying Terri's constitutional rights....this to me is clearly biased opinion on a matter he has not yet "reviewed".