Case Name: In re Oscar ROLDAN-ZAPATA, Petitioner. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Oscar ROLDAN-ZAPATA, Pedro Osario-Serna and Eric Akiva, Defendants
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1989-03-30
Citations: 872 F.2d 18
Docket Number: No. 980, Docket 89-3008
Parties: In re Oscar ROLDAN-ZAPATA, Petitioner. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Oscar ROLDAN-ZAPATA, Pedro Osario-Serna and Eric Akiva, Defendants.
Judges: Before TIMBERS, MESKILL and NEWMAN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 872
Pages: 18–20

Head Matter:
In re Oscar ROLDAN-ZAPATA, Petitioner. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Oscar ROLDAN-ZAPATA, Pedro Osario-Serna and Eric Akiva, Defendants.
No. 980, Docket 89-3008.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Submitted March 14, 1989.
Decided March 30, 1989.
Anthony J. Scremin, Miami, Fla., submitted a brief, for petitioner.
Andrew J. Maloney, U.S. Atty., E.D. N.Y., John Gleeson, Peter R. Ginsberg, Asst. U.S. Attys., E.D.N.Y., Brooklyn, N.Y., submitted a brief, for plaintiff.
Before TIMBERS, MESKILL and NEWMAN, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
This is a petition for a writ of mandamus to review an order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Costantino, J., denying a motion to recuse.
We place less significance than does Judge Newman in his dissent on the district judge's gratuitous remark, "I don't rec[]use myself from anything." We believe that the judge exercised discretion in deciding whether he should recuse himself in this matter.
Therefore, the petition for a writ of mandamus, seeking recusal of the district judge from a pending criminal case, is denied.