United States v. Kerry David Wilensky

How courts have described this case

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• holding that trial judge’s interruptions and extensive examination during both direct and cross-examination of a key defense witness “overstep[ped] the bounds of prudent judicial conduct”
• noting that the judge's conduct was harmless when considered in light of the “overwhelming testimony” presented by the government
• “In order to reverse on grounds of excessive judicial intervention, the record must either ‘disclose actual bias on the part of the trial judge (or
• “[I]n order to reverse on grounds of excessive judicial intervention, the record must . . . disclose actual bias” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• criminal trial unfair when \the judge's role loses its color of neutrality and tends to accentuate and emphasize the prosecutor's case\
• criminal trial unfair \where the judge's role loses its color of neutrality and tends to accentuate and emphasize the prosecution's case\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).