State v. Vidales

Severs, Judge.

This case concerns judicial disqualification under Neb. Rev. Stat. § 24-739 (Reissue 1995). More specifically, we address the validity of a district court judge’s decision to overrule a defendant’s motion to suppress when the judge’s wife, a deputy county attorney, was the person responsible for filing the information against that defendant.

FACTUAL BACKGROUND

On two separate occasions during November 1994, David Stahr, a known cocaine dealer, informed the Omaha Police Division, through Sgt. Mark Langan, of drug activity at 4756 South 19th Street. Apart from these two reports,…