INDIANAPOLIS — Former Subway pitchman and now convicted child predator Jared Fogle filed a novel argument in his case this week: The judge who sentenced him was biased because, he says, she has teenage daughters.
Fogle, who is now representing himself in the case, filed a motion to recuse on Tuesday in the U.S. Court for the Southern District of Indiana.
In the motion, Fogle argues that Judge Tanya Walton Pratt – who sentenced him to more than 15 years in prison in November 2015 – should recuse herself from the case because she “has bias” against him.
She is biased, he says, because Pratt “is a mother of (2) teenage daughters.” He also claims Pratt allowed an improper conspiracy charge to be filed against Fogle.
The motion will likely run into some trouble. For one thing, Pratt only has one child – and she was 24 years old at the time Fogle was sentenced.
