The trial of a Canberra man accused of trafficking drugs has been aborted after the presiding judge excused himself amid concerns about bias.
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Soran Shero, 40, may have to wait more than two years for a re-trial on drug charges that date to 2009.
ACT Supreme Court Justice John Burns yesterday excused himself from the trial on the grounds of apprehended bias.
He agreed there was potential for bias on his part because he had previously sentenced Shero in the Magistrates Court on a charge of providing a false statement.
Justice Burns was a magistrate at the time of the sentence, in December 2009.
Shero has pleaded not guilty to a charge of trafficking methylamphetamines in May and June 2009.
Police searched Shero's house in Bruce and allegedly found 250 pink pills in a zip-lock plastic bag hidden in a bin in his bedroom.
The court heard tests later showed the pills contained more than 2g of the drug methylamphetamine while several green pills, also containing methylamphetamine, were found in Shero's jeans.
Shero denied that the pills belonged to him.