Davis v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.

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• holding judge should be recused when a “person of ordinary prudence in the judge’s position, knowing all of the facts known to the judge, would find a reasonable basis for questioning the judge’s impartiality”
• stating “the mere fact that a judge has ruled adversely to a party . . . is not grounds for recusal”
• “ ‘[I]t goes without saying that a trial before a biased or prejudiced fact finder is a denial of due process.’ ”
• “Hence, the test is ultimately an objective one since the appearance of bias is as injurious to the integrity of the judicial system as actual bias.”
• in turn quoting Alley v. State, 882 S.W.2d 810, 820 (Tenn. Crim. App. 1994)
• No Tenn. R.App. P. 11 application filed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).