Charles Edward Jenkins v. Donald E. Bordenkircher, Superintendent, Kentucky State Penitentiary

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• rejecting per se rule that judge may never preside at trial when, as prosecutor, he had previous contact with defendant on totally unrelated criminal charges
• rejecting a per se rule that a judge may never preside at trial when, as a prosecutor, he had previous contact with the defendant on totally unrelated criminal charges
• reciting equivalent standard without referring to Rideau itself
• “Absent some showing of hostility or prejudgment we will not assume that a state court judge would not be able to give a defendant a fair trial solely because of his earlier contacts with the defendant in prosecuting totally unrelated charges.”
• “It has been specifically held that a judge who as United States Attorney was ‘of counsel’ when a defendant was tried and convicted of one charge is not disqualified from presiding at the prosecution of the same defendant for a totally unrelated offense.”
• reciting equivalent standard without referring to Rideau itself

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