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Originally posted by kddani
the lawyer who didn't try to press the issue for the judge to recuse himself ought to be sued for malpractice! that's a pretty basic thing.
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Except the lawyer who would most likely want to move for the Judge's recusal would have been the Assistant State's Attorney who:
1. Probably appears before that Judge on a day to day basis, hence creating a minor problem of having to have the case re-assigned to a new judge and/or new set of state's attorneys
and
2. Probably can't be sued for malpractice (governmental immunity)
Further, the victim may have elected to take his chances with the case in front of that judge? Who is to say he wouldn't have been "biased" in the victim's favor, since the victim is also a Sigma? The judge may have had a strong distaste for the alleged hazers.
Any of these scenarios could be the reason why the recusal didn't happen.