United States v. Henry L. Martin

How courts have described this case

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• noting judge’s “substantial influence” over jury and consequent need for the judge to avoid assuming the role of advocate
• noting judge’s “substantial influence” over jury and consequent need for the judge to avoid assuming the role of advocate
• a district court “can question a witness in an effort to make the testimony clear for the jury”
• a district court “can question a witness in an effort to make the testimony clear for the jury”
• “Because trial judges wield substantial influence over juries . . . . [a] judge cannot assume the role of an advocate for either side . . . .”
• no bias in district court’s questioning of witness where “district judge was firm, but not harsh or abusive in any way [and] [t]he questions were not laced with skepticism and they gave no indication as to the judge’s thoughts about [the defendant’s] honesty or dishonesty”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).