The complaint alleges that Todd’s order barring prosecutors from seeking the death penalty interfered with their discretion to seek the death penalty because her ruling applied only to exercises of judicial override, not cases in which jurors recommended the death penalty. It also criticized her for relying on secondary sources she had independently obtained, including information that Alabama trial judges were more likely to impose the death penalty during an election cycle in which they were on the ballot, and that unqualified lawyers were being appointed in capital cases based on campaign contributions. Those extraneous sources, the complaint said, “violate a judge’s duty of detachment and neutrality.” The complaint further alleges that Todd improperly refused to recuse herself from other death penalty cases after her decision was overturned on appeal.