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Judge Ellington announced today in court that he recused himself from the Jason Wagner case. Judge Ellington’s decision comes two weeks after Jason Wagner’s attorneys, John Day and Megan Dorsey, filed a motion to recuse Judge Ellington because he showed bias against Jason Wagner when he refused to sign off on Wagner’s plea deal.
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John Day spoke to the Albuquerque Journal regarding the rejected plea deal and said, “This is the result of a lot of negotiation and discussion. This is a plea deal that we worked on long and hard. Everyone is on board.”
Jason Wagner’s plea deal included resigning from the Santa Fe Police Department, one count of a misdemeanor of accepting public money without rendering service and unsupervised probation for one year.
The case will be reassigned to a different judge.
Read more via Albuquerque Journal
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Brian Egolf
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Egolf + Ferlic + Martinez, LLC
Brian Egolf is a Partner at Egolf + Ferlic + Martinez, LLC in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He represents clients in personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death, whistleblower, and complex civil litigation matters. He is admitted to practice in New Mexico and before the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico. Brian earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of New Mexico School of Law and his B.S. from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.
