Patterson v. R.T.

I do not share the view of the majority that the appellants have shown such prejudice by the trial judge that an appellate court can conclude the chancellor should have recused from the case. This was a long, involved trial with complex issues, including class certification, yet the majority offers only subjective interpretation of isolated excerpts from a voluminous record to sustain its position. In their strongest sense, these segments fall considerably short, I believe, of the sort of “objective, demonstrable prejudice” which our cases require. Matthews v. Rodgers, 279 Ark. 328, 651…