United States v. Billie J. Cherry

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that “a presiding judge is not . . . required to recuse himself simply because of unsupported, irrational or highly tenuous speculation” or “because he possesses some tangential relationship to the proceedings” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• explaining that “unsupported, irrational or highly tenuous speculation” is insufficient to support partiality claim (internal quotation marks omitted)
• discussing a case in which unrelated prior representation of victim did not require recusal
• “The Court’s determination may be based on ... any other evidence or information ... accepted by the court as relevant and reliable”
• \[D]etails about the nature of the unlawful activity underlying the money laundering need not be alleged.\ (citation omitted) (alteration adopted)
• “a presiding judge is not ... required to recuse himself simply because of ‘unsupported, irrational or highly tenuous speculation’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).