5th Circuit: Prosecutor In Reservation Shooting Case Should Not Have Been Recused

(February 28, 2024, 8:27 AM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A federal trial court did not err in declining to recuse an assistant U.S. attorney for an alleged conflict of interest in a criminal trial arising from a shooting on an Indian reservation in Mississippi because the attorney’s previous representation of the defendant was not substantially related to the current case, a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel found in affirming the defendant’s conviction and sentencing....