sunshineray
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Thanks again for your help, much appreciated.I'm not sure of the source of your basics of interlocutory appeals, but they look general enough. Merits of the action would mean issues regarding the murders themselves. Separate would be ancillary issues like decisions on compelling discovery, habeus actions (compelling attendance), jurisdiction and venue issues ... generally just procedural error.
"Insignificant" is your adjective. I won't make a determination on that issue in the instant case because I haven't seen the way Judge Gull is acting towards the parties. Being playful with one side and not with another could rise to the level of an appearance of impropriety; disparate treatment is obviously not something you want from a judge, and I have seen times where a judge is punished for such.
Judges are normally lawyers also, so they must adhere to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. They also must adhere to the Rules of Judicial Conduct. Here is a link to those rules, specific to Indiana:
That basic info was from my neck of the woods at Cornell. I know some legal stuff can differ between states but figured appeals might be more common ground.
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