STUART — Chief Circuit Judge William Roby has removed himself from an upcoming trial pitting the guardian of a brain-damaged Guatemalan native against Martin Memorial Medical Center over his 2003 deportation after having lived at the hospital’s acute care unit for two years.
Roby ordered his disqualification to preside over the civil kidnapping and false imprisonment case after Luis Alberto Jimenez’ cousin, Montejo Gaspar Montejo of Indiantown, filed court papers Thursday noting that Roby once worked for the Stuart law firm that had assisted Martin Memorial gain a court order allowing the hospital to fly Jimenez back to Guatemala.
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