State Ex Rel. Corbin v. Superior Court

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• holding that when adversarial proceedings in a criminal case are assigned to a judge who was a member of the prosecution staff at the time the prosecution commenced, the judge should take appropriate steps to have the case assigned to another judge
• holding that when adversarial proceedings in a criminal case are assigned to a judge who was a member of the prosecution staff at the time the prosecution commenced, the judge should take appropriate steps to have the case assigned to another judge
• disqualifying judge who served as an assistant district attorney at the time of the defendant's prosecution for capital murder from sitting at retrial of sentencing phase although judge had not participated in prosecuting the defendant
• impartiality of the judge may be questioned when adversarial proceedings in a criminal case are assigned to a judge who was a member of the staff of the prosecution or defense at the time prosecution began
• impartiality of the judge may be questioned when adversarial proceedings in a criminal case are assigned to a judge who was a member of the staff of the prosecution or defense at the time prosecution began

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).