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Recusal in Plano Search Warrant Case

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The Plano Star Courier reports, "Judge Rusch recused from Bell murder trial."Judge Mark Rusch will not oversee a capital murder trial after a presiding judge removed him from the case at the request of the defense.Presiding Judge Gary Stephens approved a motion to recuse Rusch from the Mark Lyle Bell capital murder trial last Thursday, according to Collin County court records.Attorneys for Bell, of McKinney, filed a brief earlier this month in the 401st District Court asking Stephens to force Rusch to step down from his chair for Bell's capital murder trial claiming that his handling of possible evidence obtained from Bell's defense attorney's office made him a "material witness" in the case.Stephen's ruling on Rusch's status in the trial gives the defense the chance to subpoena Rusch as a witness in the trial...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 28, 2008 (boomark / email).