The Bainbridge man accused of gunning down his former employer has asked for a new judge to preside over his first-degree murder trial.

That request was followed by one from the Kitsap County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, also seeking a different judge to take over the case.

Brian Andrew Glaser, 31, was arrested Aug. 30 at his Bainbridge Island home after he allegedly told police that his former boss, Donald “Donnie” Duckworth, 66, of Poulsbo was killed because he had poisoned Glaser’s dog a few months earlier.

Glaser remains in custody in Kitsap County Jail. His next court appearance has been set for Oct. 5.

Last week, Glaser and his attorney Thomas Weaver asked the court for a new judge in the case.

“I do not believe I can receive a fair and just trial before the Honorable Judge Jeanette Dalton. I request that my case be heard by a judge other than Judge Jeanette Dalton,” Glaser said in a declaration of prejudice filed Sept. 14 in Kitsap County Superior Court.

Superior Court Judge William C. Houser was then assigned to the pretrial matters and trial, but Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Chad Enright asked that Houser be removed as judge in a following notice of disqualification, filed Sept. 17.

The case has now been assigned to Superior Court Judge Kevin Hull.

In an email to the Review, Enright said each side in the case could file one disqualification notice.

“My recollection was that the defense filed a notice to disqualify Judge Dalton. We then filed one to disqualify Judge Houser,” Enright said.

“It’s not in response to anything about Judge Houser and I’m certain that the defense didn’t have any specific issue with Judge Dalton. I think each side is just looking at the facts and the legal issues and deciding which judge they think will be best to hear the case,” Enright explained.

Glaser pleaded “not guilty” to first-degree murder at his initial arraignment Aug. 31.

Authorities allege that Glaser repeatedly shot and killed Duckworth, his former employer, on Aug. 29 at a property near High School Road where Duckworth had been hired to drill a well.

Glaser was soon named as a possible “person of interest” in the crime, as he had once worked for Duckworth until he claimed he was hurt on the job earlier this year. A disagreement with his boss over whether Glaser was really hurt at work made Glaser seem “ready to snap,” one person familiar with the dispute told police.

Glaser was arrested after a nearly five-hour interview with detectives in which he allegedly asked to “plead the fifth” after he was asked about the last time he saw Duckworth and his own whereabouts on the Wednesday Duckworth was murdered.

Glaser allegedly told police Duckworth had been shot multiple times while he was on the ground “so he wouldn’t suffer,” according to court documents.

Glaser eventually agreed to show police the gun used in the attack, and officers obtained a search warrant to get the firearm from a backpack in the living room of Glaser’s home.

Police found the loaded gun where Glaser had said it was, and he also pointed investigators to a spot in the wooded area in front of his home where he had wrapped up and buried the shell casings from the murder scene, according to court documents.

Officers found 16 shell casings, which police said were consistent with the spent rounds recovered from where Duckworth had been murdered near High School Road.

Authorities also said a description of a truck seen where Duckworth was killed matched the appearance of a truck found in Glaser’s driveway.

Detectives also said they discovered Glaser’s fingerprints on one of the trucks at the property where Duckworth had been drilling the well.