http://www.dailyrecordnews.com/memb...d0d52c4-541b-11e6-96d8-0b8324281ae2.html

They had the motion to ask the judge to recuse himself as his comments at a prior hearing indicated to the defense attorney that the 10 day rule was not applicable on this case. Normally, you have within 10 days of arraignment to file an "Affidavit of Prejudice" and ask the judge to recuse himself. After that, they don't need to and it becomes rather discretionary.

The judge denied the defense motion to recuse himself or not remove himself under the change of judge rule.

The second part of the motion was to modify conditions of release. At the previous hearing when they set conditions of release, one of the conditions was that the defendant not hunt while the case is pending. That would obviously make it impossible for him to use his auction tag this year unless there was resolution of the matter before the end of the season and the conditions of the resolution allowed hunting. The judge ruled in favor of the defense and modified conditions of release so that he may hunt while this case is pending. There is a new scheduling conference set for August 9 but I would bet the trial gets set out a ways so that some hunting can occur in Sept. before any conviction or deal is struck where the defendant can't use the tag...