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053599P.pdf   05/12/2006  USA  v.  Araceli Martinez
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  05-3599
   Northern District of Iowa   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Colloton and Heaney, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Criminal law. District court did not err in holding
   defendant was competent to enter a guilty plea; fact that former assistant
   U.S. Attorney who indicted defendant was now serving as the district
   court's law clerk and acted as courtroom deputy at a motion hearing did
   not require the district court judge to recuse herself; the law clerk
   performed only ministerial functions at the hearing and was screened
   from any substantive participation in the case.