DE LEON v. AGUILAR

No. 74,760.

127 S.W.3d 1 (2004)

Cesar DE LEON, Relator, v. The Honorable Luis AGUILAR, Judge 120Th District Court of El Paso County, Respondent.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 21, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ray Velarde, El Paso, for Appellant.

John P. Mobbs, El Paso, Matthew Paul, State's Attorney, Austin, for State.


OPINION

HERVEY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court in which MEYERS, PRICE, WOMACK, JOHNSON, KEASLER, HOLCOMB, and COCHRAN, JJ., joined.

The issue in this mandamus proceeding is whether the law provides an immediate remedy to enforce a right to recuse a biased trial judge. We hold that it does.

This is an original mandamus proceeding filed by Eduardo Chavez (Chavez) and Cesar De Leon (De Leon). They seek mandamus relief from this Court...

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