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RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) Circuit Judge Jack Delaney has denied a prosecution request to remove himself from the murder case of 51-year-old Robert Goulding of Rapid City.

Prosecutors had said Delaney, a 7th Circuit judge, cannot be fair and impartial in the case.

Goulding stands accused of shooting and killing 56-year-old Allen Kissner at Sheridan Lake last month. He died from a gunshot wound to the head.

Goulding has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge.

His wife, 58-year-old Nancy Ellwein, has pleaded not guilty to being an accessory to murder.

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