What is the effect of the judge's admonition to the jury not to take from the remark "advocacy or partisanship"?

Whatever the judge meant by his remark, the jury could have taken from it an impression of "advocacy or partisanship." See Eldred, 588 F.2d at 749. We must therefore consider whether that impression would have made the trial inherently unfair, or whether the judge's subsequent admonition sufficiently obviated the risk of such an impression of prejudice infecting the trial. See United States v. Sanchez-Lopez, 879 F.2d 541, 555 (9th Cir.1989).

Cases finding fatally prejudicial judicial bias have uniformly involved much more

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