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Juge Refuses Vera (Again)
Fri, July 21, 2017
A week ago, we told you how the convicted police firearms examiner, Orlando Vera, made an application for Justice Herbert Lord to recuse himself from hearing his appeal. That's after refusing 3 applications for bail that Vera made.

Well, today, the judge had one more refusal: he refused his application. Court reports are that the judge said in his decision that he doesn't think Vera has established any legal basis to ask that he recuse himself.

From there, the judge announced dates for the start of the case, and he has scheduled the full hearing of the appeal, which is scheduled for August 15.

We spoke with DPP Cheryl-lynn Vidal who told us that she is of the opinion that Vera had no grounds to ask for the recusal. She told us that Vera is not allowed to ask that a new judge hears his case simply because he disagrees with the decisions of the judge. She told us that this amounts to forum shopping, and that is not allowed.

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