But I did not get the deputy too!"
On May 22, attorneys Michele M. Iafrate and A. Melvin McDonald filed a Motion for Recusal and Disqualification of District Court Judge G. Murray Snow because of revelations allegedly made by Snow's wife regarding his apparent disdain toward Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his wishes to drive the sheriff from office.
Those revelations came to light in an August 2013 conversation between Mrs. Snow and her childhood friend Karen Grissom. In that conversation, Mrs. Snow allegedly said her husband "hates" Sheriff Arpaio and "will do anything to get [him] out of office." If true, such emotions and desires on the part of Judge Snow appear to be at odds with a truly neutral oversight of the contempt proceedings now underway against the Maricopa County Sheriff.
The Motion for Recusal includes a copy of the Facebook post in which Grissom relayed Mrs. Snow's words to Sheriff Arpaio after remaining quiet about them for some time.
From the court documents, Grissom's exact words were:
Judge Snow I know his wife and talked with her one day she recognized me from our childhood she told me that her husband hates u and will do anything to get u out of office. This has bothered me since last year when I saw her.