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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowA judge who sentenced disgraced former sports doctor Larry Nassar to prison for molesting girls will hold a hearing on a request that she disqualify herself from his appeal of the sentence.
Judge Rosemarie Aquilina will hear arguments in her Lansing, Michigan, courtroom today.
Nassar’s court-appointed appellate lawyers said the judge was biased. They cited her inappropriate comments, such as saying she would allow someone “to do to him what he did to others” if the constitution allowed.
The Michigan attorney general’s office defended Aquilina’s conduct and said she was channeling “the community’s frustration and moral outrage.”
Nassar, who is serving a 60-year federal term for child pornography possession, is contesting a 40- to 175-year state sentence ordered by Aquilina. He wants to be resentenced by another judge.
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