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Serial Killer Gets New Judge in Murder Trial

By Baker Associates

A suspected serial killer accused of murdering eleven women has received a new judge to try his murder case after the Ohio Supreme Court has removed his current judge under suspicion of inappropriate conduct. The man?s attorney filed a motion to have the judge removed in order to avoid the ?appearance of impropriety,? alleging that the judge discussed the case with another judge outside of the presence of the defendant or his attorneys, that the judge made inappropriate comments about the defendant on a website, and that the judge had a financial stake in the outcome of the case. All three of these activities would be grounds for disqualification of the judge if they were true. At this point, there is no definitive evidence that the allegations are true, but the fact that such serious allegations were made apparently prompted the Ohio Supreme Court to take action...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on April 29, 2010 (boomark / email).