United States v. David A. Ruzzano

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• recognizing that “extraordinary circumstances” might excuse failure to seek refusal in timely manner
• noting that “the fact that a judge was an [Assistant United States Attorney] during the prosecution, standing alone, does not require recusal”
• mere possibility of different sentence “falls short of the required showing of a reasonable probability that the sentence would have been different”
• mere possibility of different sentence “falls short of the required showing of a reasonable probability that the sentence would have been different”
• a defendant must still show a reasonable probability that he received additional prison time because of counsel’s error
• actual participation required to trigger disqualification

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).