Public defender versus shark lover

Does a prosecutor have to withdraw from a cruelty to animals case because she's a known animal lover? No more, I think, than a prosecutor has to withdraw from a domestic violence case because she's active with the local battered women's shelter.

Two colleagues in Long Beach, California think otherwise and have filed to get her off the case. Their clients maybe should be glad that the animal victims didn't take out alternative sanctions on their little juvy *sses.

Now, if it had been the prosecutor's pet shark...