Maneikis v. State

1 Citing case

  1. Willis v. State

    512 N.E.2d 871 (Ind. Ct. App. 1987)   Cited 8 times

    This exchange was published in a local paper. Willis also contends that the trial judge should have disqualified himself because he engaged in ex parte communications with counsel before ruling on the Motion to Correct Errors. The record shows that it was the defense counsel who the judge was talking with so Willis may not now complain on appeal. Maneikis v. State (1980), Ind. App., 411 N.E.2d 669, 699. The law presumes that a judge is unbiased and unprejudiced in the matters which come before him. Where the judge has actual prejudice in a case, justice requires that the judge disqualify himself.