A federal appeals court has bounced U.S. District Judge William Martini of the District of New Jersey from the murder-conspiracy and racketeering case against former prosecutor Paul Bergrin, finding the judge’s impartiality “might reasonably be questioned.”
In a victory for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, which had clashed repeatedly with Martini during Bergrin’s first trial that ended with a hung jury, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on June 15 instructed the district court’s chief judge to reassign the case.
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