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Prosecutors say defense attorneys ‘playing games' to delay Oklahoma City pharmacist's murder trial

 
BY NOLAN CLAY | Published: December 6, 2010   

Prosecutors today accused a pharmacist's defense attorneys of asking for a judge to step down because they want to delay the murder trial, not because they really believe the judge cannot be fair.

photo - Pharmacist Jerome Ersland, who is accused of killing an unconscious teen during a robbery sits in the courtroom during a hearing where his defense attorneys have asked the presiding judge to recuse himself, in Oklahoma City, Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. Attorneys for Ersland allege in court filings that the judge used racial slurs and that the judge's wife, who works in the district attorney's office, e-mailed the judge about the case. Prosecutors say there is no evidence to support those allegations, and that even if proven true, there is nothing that would deprive Ersland of a fair trial. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
Pharmacist Jerome Ersland, who is accused of killing an unconscious teen during a robbery sits in the courtroom during a hearing where his defense attorneys have asked the presiding judge to recuse himself, in Oklahoma City, Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. Attorneys for Ersland allege in court filings that the judge used racial slurs and that the judge's wife, who works in the district attorney's office, e-mailed the judge about the case. Prosecutors say there is no evidence to support those allegations, and that even if proven true, there is nothing that would deprive Ersland of a fair trial. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

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“It's all about playing games,” Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater said at a hearing on the defense request for the judge to quit the case.

Prater called District Judge Ray C. Elliott the fairest judge in the courthouse.

Defense attorney Irven Box said the judge this spring began making negative comments about Hispanics and Latinos that increased as the judge had laborers work on his property. He said he heard the judge tell his female bailiff in the spring “to hurry up and have 10 white babies because the Mexicans are going to catch up with us.

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