Ferguson v. State

The issue in this caée is whether the circuit court should have recused from Jacqueline Ferguson’s criminal trial for second-degree domestic battery of her child. The criminal' case ■ spun from the same facts that started an earlier dependency-neglect case involving Ferguson’s alleged abuse of her child. The same circuit judge presided over both the dependency-neglect adjudication and the criminal-jury trial. The criminal trial involved the same witnesses, testimony, and alleged abusive act that the judge heard a few months prior while presiding over the. dependency-neglect hearing, during…