Legal Opinion · Concurrence

In re Messiah S.

Connecticut Appellate Court

Decided October 1, 2012No. AC 34324Published

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…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Wiseman v. ArmstrongSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2010
  2. Carrano v. Yale-New Haven HospitalSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2006
  3. Rosado v. Bridgeport Roman Catholic Diocesan Corp.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 2009
  4. Joyner v. Commissioner of CorrectionConnecticut Appellate Court · 1999
  5. Johnson v. Board of EducationConnecticut Appellate Court · 2011

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