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Badge & Bar: Judge recusal denied in taxi driver slaying case
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The motion to have a judge removed from a five-defendant murder case because of an email sent to Drug Court participants was denied July 9. Misty Sunshine Moran, 39, Margarita Jean Leanos, 28, Nicholas Allen Gonzalez, 24, Justin John Adams, 22, and Ignacio Mondragon, 21, face charges of felony murder in connection with the death of Isaias Tovar-Murillo on March 15. Tovar-Murillo drove a cab for Taxi El Palmar.