Category: Judicial Recusal
Boy Scout Connection Did Not Require Judicial Recusal
Judicial recusal is appropriate when there is a reasonable basis to question a judge’s impartiality. Defendants in criminal cases have a right to an unbiased, impartial judge. In the recent case of Brennan v. State, M2012-00187-CCA-R3-PC (Tenn.Crim.App. 12-4-2012), a defendant who had pled guilty to incest and attempted rape of a child, and received a total effective sentence