United States v. James E. Outler

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• holding that a magistrate judge issuing a search warrant was not obligated to disqualify himself because he had previously represented' the government in an unrelated probation revocation hearing against the defendant
• holding that a magistrate judge who issued a search warrant was not obligated to disqualify himself even though he had prosecuted the defendant three years earlier in an unrelated case
• holding indictment failed to charge an offense because absence of element meant grand jury may not have considered it, despite appearance of statutory citation in each count of the indictment
• finding that magistrate judge who represented Government at defendant’s probation revocation three years earlier didn’t violate § 455 by issuing search warrant
• stating that recusal is only necessary if the “two proceedings have a common, single transaction or event at issue”
• holding no nexus between magistrate’s prior prosecution of the defendant and subsequent proceedings

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).