Key legal question
Whether the recusal appeal against Kantonsgerichtspräsident Walter Kobler was well founded.
Extracted holding
The challenged facts did not objectively create an appearance of bias; the recusal request was rejected.
Extracted reasoning
The newspaper article did not show that the judge had made the alleged statements, and alleged procedural or substantive errors in the criminal trial did not, by themselves, establish bias absent especially grave or repeated misconduct.