United States v. Kehlbeck

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• no per se disqualification where “friend appears as counsel, party, or witness”; collecting cases
• fact that judge was socially acquainted with defendant did not require disqualification
• where defendant alleged that judge could not be impartial where the judge had socialized with a witness, the court disagreed, stating that “[r]arely does a judge's mere acquaintance with a party or witness justify recusal”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).