Dugan v. Ohio

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• holding that a mayor whose salary derived from a gen- eral fund to which criminal fines accumulated was not interested in the fund
• holding that it was constitutionally permissible for a mayor to serve as the municipal-court judge when he exercised no execu- tive functions and received a fixed salary
• holding that where the mayor’s salary was fixed and he had a remote executive relation as one of five city commissioners to the fund to which fines in his court contributed, his pecuniary interest in the outcome of cases before his court was too minute to cause an appearance of bias
• rejecting similar due process challenge to conviction obtained in mayor’s court because mayor had very limited executive authority
• determining no due process violation where the mayor received a salary and the mayor's salary was not dependent on whether he convicted a defendant appearing SUPREME COURT OF NEVADA (0
• finding no due process violation where defendant was convicted in mayor’s court and portions of the fines assessed went into general fund out of which mayor’s fixed salary was paid

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