United States v. Thomas John Morris, Sr.

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• reasoning that, absent extraordinary circumstances, “a nonjudicial source must be present to raise the appearance of impropriety”
• trial judge’s involvement in coparticipant’s trial and sentence reduction for coparticipant’s cooperation in defendant’s prosecution insufficient ground for disqualification
• \[T]he source of the appearance of partiality must arise from some source other than the judge's previous involvement with cases that concerned the parties or witnesses in the present case.\ (collecting cases)

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