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To: Cincinnatus
Did the aggrieved party object to him presiding from the beginning or only after the result?

That is not a fair question. How is the aggrieved party supposed to know they were friends in order to object at all? Run a background check? Most people show up in court expecting the Judge to be, at the very least, fair and impartial. Most people do not know the Judge, and he/she does not know them--that is how it should be.

Judge Klein, if he had any ethics at all, should have recused himself because he personally knew Judge McLean. He didn't.

134 posted on 12/09/2007 7:43:03 PM PST by pray4liberty (I pray and I vote.)
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To: pray4liberty
That is not a fair question. How is the aggrieved party supposed to know they were friends in order to object at all?

Actually it's a perfectly fair question, because if the presiding judge had ANY kind of personal relationship with a party, he needs to disclose that up front in order to give the parties an opportunity to object. And in the real world, judges know a lot of people. That's how they get elected (or appointed). When I was on the bench it was the rare case when I didn't know one or more of the parties in one capacity or another. Can't be avoided and must be disclosed. And frankly there were any number of judges and former judges I would have been delighted to have had an opportunity to rule against!

137 posted on 12/09/2007 9:54:49 PM PST by Cincinnatus
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