Alleging bias against the state’s case and a lack of impartiality by Lindberg, prosecutor Joe Butner asked for a meeting in the judge’s chambers, requesting that he recuse himself from the case. Lindberg granted the meeting on April 2. He restated his previous comments from an in-chambers meeting on March 30, in which he’d said that as part of the state’s case in chief he wasn’t going to allow the state to bring up Steve’s multiple affairs, his use of the HGH injections or the FINRA complaints against him. However, Lindberg had said those elements could be used as evidence in the penalty phase if the case reached that point. “And you made the comment ‘I don’t believe we are going to get there,’” Butner said, alleging that this remark showed a clear bias against the state’s case. “I don’t think I said that,” Lindberg said. “I think I said, ‘I am not sure we are going to get to that.’” The judge had already struck down two death penalty aggravators—allegations that the murder was “cold and calculating”
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