Case Title: State v. Carter

Citation: 

Docket Number: 89-501

State: vermont

Court: Vermont Supreme Court

Date: 1990-05-01T00:00:00Z

Document:
ENTRY ORDER
 
                      SUPREME COURT DOCKET NO. 89-501
 
                     MAY TERM, 1990
 
 
State of Vermont                  }          APPEALED FROM:
                                  }
                                  }
     v.                           }          Addison Superior Court
                                  }
                                  }
Merrill J. Carter                 }          DOCKET NO. S61-88Acr
 
 
             In the above entitled cause the Clerk will enter:
 
     Defendant argues that the trial court erred by denying defendant's
motion to disqualify an assistant judge from the sentencing hearing.  We
disagree.
 
     V.R.Cr.P. 50(d)(2) requires that an affidavit or a certificate of the
movant's attorney accompany the motion to disqualify and state the reason
therefor, and when such reason first became known.  Defendant failed to
provide the court with the requisite affidavit or certificate.  This
failure alone would warrant dismissal of the motion to disqualify.  V.R.Cr.P
50(d)(1).
 
     A judge must disqualify himself whenever a doubt of impartiality would
exist in the mind of a reasonable disinterested observer.  See Code of
Judicial Conduct, A.O. 10, Canon 3(C)(1); Richard v. Richard, 146 Vt. 286,
288,