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Judges and Judiciary

Oct. 22, 2008

Recusal Motion in Forgery Case Dismissed

A San Francisco-based judge on Monday denied as moot a motion to recuse every judge in the Central District of California from the case of a Los Angeles woman who allegedly tried to free her imprisoned husband by forging two federal jurists’ signatures on fake court documents.

By Ciaran McEvoy

Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - A San Francisco-based judge on Monday denied as moot a motion to recuse every judge in the Central District of California from the case of a Los Angeles woman who allegedly tried to free her imprisoned husband by forging two federal jurists' signatures on fake court documents.

U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker, the chief judge of the Northern District of California, denied Danielle Denise Jones...

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