Legal Question in Criminal Law in Virginia

Re: having prosecuting attorney/judge removed from case

You give no clue as to what your current case is about nor what the previous cases involved. However, Virginia appellate courts have ruled that merely because a judge or prosecutor may have had prior exposure to a defendant in a previous criminal matter while acting in a different capacity (such as defense counsel), and, consequently, had opportunity to acquire personal knowledge regarding the individual's background and record, that that is not a sufficient reason to require recusal(removal) of the judge or prosecutor in the case at issue.