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Weber County attorney wants judge removed from gang case for calling him a ‘liar’

The Weber County attorney is firing back after a federal judge recently questioned whether he told the truth in a lawsuit over a now-defunct gang injunction.

Christopher Allred is asking that U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups be taken off the case, arguing in court papers that Waddoups' recent ruling was a personal attack and showed a bias against him.

Waddoups was critical of Allred and the previous county attorney, Dee Smith, in a recent order where he ruled the county violated the rights of two Ogden men who had been targeted by a controversial injunction that forbid Ogden Trece gang members from associating with each other in public.