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U.S. v. BAYLESS

Docket No. 98-1580.

201 F.3d 116 (2000)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Carol BAYLESS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: January 18, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tracy W. Young, Madison, NJ (Joyce C. London, New York, NY, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant.

Ira M. Feinberg, Assistant United States Attorney, on behalf of Mary Jo White, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (Jay Holtmeier, Special Assistant United States Attorney, and Boyd M. Johnson III and Lewis J. Liman, Assistant United States Attorneys, on the brief), for Appellee.

Gerald Walpin and Steven M. Edwards, Federal Bar Council, New York, NY, submitted a brief (Barrie Goldstein and Russell L. Penzer, on the brief), for amicus curiae Federal Bar Council.

Before: CALABRESI and PARKER, Circuit Judges, and TRAGER, District Judge.

CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal from a conviction of narcotics offenses, defendant-appellant Carol Bayless argues that the district judge (Harold Baer, Jr., J.) who presided over a pre-trial suppression hearing was obliged to recuse himself in the interest of the appearance of justice. Judge Baer's original decision to grant Bayless's motion to suppress drugs seized from her car was fiercely criticized by politicians and press alike, some of whom called...

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