Court Opinion

ID: 9557749
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 16:56:51.730706+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:06:34.504202
License: Public Domain

Stafford, J.
(concurring) — I concur with Sections I and III of the majority opinion. I concur only in the result reached in Section II. First, Section II is pure dicta. Second, while I agree appellant's "appearance of fairness" claim should be rejected, it should not be done by focusing upon the absence of actual partiality on the part of Bork. Such does not deal with "appearance of fairness". At best it is a rejection based upon the merits of a bias claim. If we are to consider the "appearance of fairness" claim and reject it, we should do so on a proper basis, i.e., that a disinterested person would not be reasonably justified in thinking that partiality existed.
Utter, J., concurs with Stafford, J.