Question juridique clé
Whether the prosecutor's former professional relationship with the complainant's lawyer required recusal for appearance of bias
Solution extraite
Yes. The length and recency of the professional ties were sufficient to create a legitimate appearance of partiality.
Motifs extraits
The prosecutor had been successively trainee, collaborator and partner of the complainant's lawyer for nearly five years, ending only 16 months earlier. Even without concrete evidence of actual bias, these circumstances could objectively raise doubts in the accused's mind.