In Re David Lamar Faulkner, James Larkin Toler, Spencer Hayward Blain, Jr., Paul Arlin Jensen, Kenneth Earl Cansler, and Paul Douglas Tannehill

We are presented with a petition for writ of mandamus directing the district judge to recuse himself in this criminal proceeding. Concluding that under Liljeberg v. Health Services Acquisition Corp., — U.S. —, 108 S.Ct. 2194, 100 L.Ed.2d 855 (1988), recusal is required, we grant the petition.

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The petitioners are charged, in an eighty-eight-count indictment, with conspiracy to misapply monies and funds of institutions insured by the Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC); to defraud the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB); to commit wire fraud; wilfully to overvalue land for the…