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EX-DISNEY ACTOR SAYS JUDGE IN UNDERAGE SEX-CRIME CASE HAS BIAS AGAINST GAY PEOPLE
December 29, 2019
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SALT LAKE CITY — A former Disney Channel actor charged with trying to have sex with a 13-year-old boy in Salt Lake City contends he can’t get a fair trial because the judge handling his case is biased against gay people.
An attorney for actor Stoney Westmoreland said in court documents filed last month that U.S. District Judge Howard Nielson Jr. is incapable of being impartial because he represented proponents of a gay marriage ban in California when he was a private attorney, the Deseret News reports. Nielson