Stating The Obvious: Nye County Judge Recuses Herself From Murder Case

This had to be the most obvious case of bias in a long time of a judge,anywhere.
From the Parhump Valley Times: Accusations of bias forced a District Court judge to recuse herself from hearing a high profile murder case.
Judge Kimberly Wanker signed an order on March 15 removing herself from the murder case of Daniel Robbins, a former state gaming control officer accused of shooting to death his teenage daughter’s 21-year-old boyfriend in August.
Robbins’ defense attorneys filed a motion on March 14 seeking Wanker’s removal from the case after the attorneys became aware of a recorded conversation between the judge and some court employees where it appeared the judge made several disparaging remarks about their client.
The recordings were of private conversations captured on Wanker’s courtroom taping system after a Feb. 6 bail hearing in which the judge blasted Robbins and denied him bail for the second time since his arrest.
Ironically, the judge had read into the record during that hearing several disparaging remarks that Robbins had made about her to his wife during conversations the couple had while Robbins was in police custody. Police routinely record such conversations, monitoring them for evidence that can be used in court.
In the transcript of the Feb. 6 courtroom recording attached to Robbins’ defense motion, Wanker is allegedly heard calling the defendant an “a**hole,” and saying that his reasons for shooting his pistol the night in question sounded like “bulls***.”
She also refers to several of Robbins’ supporters as “church people,” and makes clear that she read into the record during the hearing Robbins’ remarks about her as well as comments he made on Facebook to his daughter’s boyfriend before the shooting so that his supporters realized that he was “no saint.”
http://pvtimes.com/news/judge-recuses-self-from-murder-case-after-bias-claim/
If it is true, that she called the defendant a ass hole and his supporters church people, then not only should she be off the case, but a complaint with the Nevada Judicial Discipline Commission.
But I guess Wanker has her supporters: Numerous sources at the Pahrump courthouse, who did not wish to speak on the record for this story, suggest that Wanker made a “rookie mistake” in the Robbins case.
They all said that judges are human, too, and that judges often give their opinions about cases despite a tradition of impartiality. All agreed that Wanker has been a strong judge and an asset to Nye County.
And if Wanker were a conservative judge, the PVT would try and lynch her like they have done to other conservatives in Nye County.  But Matt Ward, the supposed muckraker at the PVT, has decided to give Wanker a pass.  What a hypocrite, Ward is.