State v. Knowlton

TROUT, Justice.

Steven Knowlton appeals from an order revoking his probation and ordering him to serve an indeterminate ten-year sentence for the rape of his fourteen-year old daughter. On appeal, Knowlton contends the trial judge was biased and should have been disqualified as a result of the judge’s participation in the Governor’s Task Force for Children at Risk, the prosecutor engaged in misconduct at the probation revocation hearing and the trial court abused its discretion in orally denying a motion for a reduction in sentence.

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BACKGROUND AND PRIOR PROCEEDINGS

In 1984, Knowlton pleaded…