O.C. Chick Fero v. Dareld Kerby

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• requiring a showing of actual bias or an appearance of bias strong enough to create a conclusive presumption of actual bias
• finding that the trial judge’s “brother-in-law [having] a substantial financial interest in the outcome of the civil action did not give rise to a direct, pecuniary interest on the judge’s part sufficient to overcome the presumption of judicial integrity”
• “a state court's failure to submit a lesser included offense instruction cannot form the basis for federal habeas relief”
• “a state court's failure to submit a lesser included offense instruction cannot form the basis for federal habeas relief”
• “A fair trial in a fair tribunal is a basic requirement of due process.” (quoting In re Murchison, 349 U.S. 133, 136 (1955))
• no conclusive presumption of bias where trial judge's son worked as law clerk in district attorney's office and attended trial

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