In Re: Gale Nettles

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• holding that the entire bench of the Northern District of Illinois was required to recuse from the case and the case was subsequently assigned to an out-of-circuit district judge
• concluding that a reasonable observer would think that threatened judges would want defendant convicted and given a long sentence rather than have the opportunity to carry out the threat
• requiring recusal of all judges stationed in a courthouse that defendant attempted to bomb
• disqualification required because defendant’s threat was genuine even though judge was never in any actual danger
• “[w]e do not suggest that [the presiding judge] would in fact be prejudiced against Nettles .... [t]he issue is appearances”
• disqualification required because defendant’s threat was genuine even though judge was never in any actual danger

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