An impartial trial as an essential element of due process contemplates one that is impersonal and unbiased where the judge acts with such cold neutrality, consistent with that high degree of judicial statesmanship required of an impartial magistrate. Within the bounds of judicial ethics, a judge is required to render a just decision that is completely free and devoid of any "suspicion as to its fairness" and unquestioned in its integrity, and at the same time, free from any interest, pecuniary or otherwise, in the outcome of the case before him.
The judge, like Caesar's wife must always be above suspicion.
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