The revelations about the compromised cases illustrate the growing fallout over former U.S. District Court Judge Joshua Kindred’s resignation.
Alaska federal prosecutors have identified nearly two dozen criminal cases in which a federal judge who resigned in disgrace this month had an undisclosed conflict of interest with attorneys who appeared before him. by the 9th Circuit that became public last week.
The revelations about the compromised cases illustrate the growing fallout over Kindred’s resignation, and the disturbing impact on the integrity of criminal cases in Alaska’s federal court. Judges are bound by ethical code to disqualify themselves from a matter if their impartiality could be “reasonably questioned.”
“This list provided by the USAO only begins to scratch the surface of potential cases impacted by the inappropriate conduct referenced in the judicial investigation,” Alaska Federal Defender Jamie McGrady wrote in a statement.
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