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I am going off the handle officially. I am tired of this case. I beg you to recuse me…. I beg you to recuse me. I don’t want to deal with you people anymore…. I’m honestly — I’m trying to get recused. Because I can’t — it is not fair to me, my staff, my life to have to deal with you people who do not want to resolve this case.
— Probate Judge Mike Wood, who’s spent most of the last of 20 years presiding over the fight for billionaire oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall’s (better known as Anna Nicole Smith’s husband) estate, expressing his frustrations with the ongoing case. He’s seemingly reached the end of his rope and is ready to put it all behind him. The case will now be before Probate Judge Christine Butts.