In re Messiah S.
Connecticut Appellate Court
1ConcurrencePeters, J.
Canon 2 of the Code of Judicial Conduct “ ‘requires a judge to disqualify himself or herself in a proceeding in which the judge’s impartiality *637might reasonably be questioned. The reasonableness standard is an objective one. Thus, the question is not only whether the particular judge is, in fact, impartial but whether a reasonable person would question the judge’s impartiality on the basis of all the circumstances.’ . . . Disqualification is required even when no actual bias has been demonstrated if a judge’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned ‘because the appearance and the existence…
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