Court Opinion

ID: 7703992
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-30 18:59:41.502927+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:26:55.361746
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ANSTEAD, J.,
dissenting.
Even if just for the sake of judicial efficiency, I would grant the appellant’s request to enlarge the scope of the hearing to be conducted below to include a claim for a new trial based upon the allegations of judicial bias. We have acted because of a mandate by the federal courts that the appellant’s allegations of judicial bias require an eviden-*319tiary hearing. It is apparent that this claim, if established, would provide a basis for a claim for a new trial. Instead of treating defendant’s claims piece-meal, we should allow them both to be treated in the same proceedings below.
SHAW, J., concurs.