From the Montreal Gazette
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Appeals+Court+judge+pulled+Hells+case/2965759/story.html
MONTREAL - A judge of the Quebec Court of Appeal has been pulled off a case involving the Hells Angels because he once represented the biker gang as a lawyer.
Radio-Canada reported Thursday that Quebec’s chief justice, Michel Robert, made the decision to remove Quebec Court of Appeal Judge Jacques Léger after learning he advised the Hells in a case involving the gang’s trademarks before being appointed to the higher court in 2006.
Léger was scheduled to preside over a bail hearing next Tuesday of four Hells charged with murder. Léger had not informed the chief magistrate of his past or decided himself, as per the tradition, to decline to hear the case.
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