Although a defendant who withdraws a guilty plea may request that he be tried before a different Judge, such person is not automatically entitled to have the Judge who accepted his guilty plea recuse himself from further proceedings absent one of the statutory bases for disqualification set forth in section 14 of the Judiciary Law. The trial court is, in the exercise of its "personal conscience", the "sole arbiter" of a claim that recusal is warranted (People v Moreno...
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