United States v. Harry Greenspan, AKA Alfred A. Lugo, AKA Alfred Anthony Lugo, AKA Alex Lugo, AKA Alex Stone

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• stating that “the judge must document the reasons for his or her decision” on recusal
• trial judge accelerated the date of defendant’s sentencing hearing “for the stated reason that the court wanted to get [him] into the penitentiary system as quickly as possible”
• threat required recusal because it was apparently genuine and nothing in the record suggested it “was a ruse ... to obtain a different judge”
• judge should have recused because the judge clearly took threat by defendant seriously and chose to accelerate court procedures
• “any such ploy would likely result in further ancillary prosecution against a defendant in a way that may significantly multiply his or her problems with the law”
• “Even if this judge were one of those remarkable individuals who could ignore the personal implications of such a [death] threat, the public reasonably could doubt his ability to do so.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).