Key legal question
Whether the recusal request against the Pretura penale president was time-barred and therefore inadmissible
Extracted holding
The cantonal court should have examined the recusal request on the merits; the Federal Court did not accept that the request could be left unexamined solely on timeliness grounds.
Extracted reasoning
Because the cantonal court committed an error in calculating the deadline and, in any event, the Federal Court will not act as first and last instance on the recusal request. The complaint raised non-manifest grounds that require full cantonal review.