Liteky v. United States

In Liteky v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the conviction of a priest and rejected his argument that the trial judge should have recused himself. Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the Court, held that:

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All of these grounds are inadequate under the principles we have described above: They consist of judicial rulings, routine trial administration efforts, and ordinary admonishments (whether or not legally supportable) to counsel and to witnesses. All occurred in the course of judicial proceedings, and neither (1) relied upon knowledge acquired outside such proceedings nor (2) displayed deep-seated and unequivocal antagonism that would render fair judgment impossible.

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Liteky v. United States, 510 U.S. 540, 556 (1994).