Mass Review Of Corrupt PA Judge's Cases

News from Luzerne County, PA:

This sort of thing is why I consider gross abuse of the public trust to be one of the crimes for which the death penalty should be an option. Admittedly, these days it just isn’t done in the old-time style:

Actually this is why im 100% against the dead penalty. We are talking about corrupt judges here, theres another thread in the pit about an asshole cop, and yet somehow people still think its ok this people should have power over someones life or death. Not to mention lawyers and the weakest link in the chain, juries of our “peers”.

They should just sentence him to the same amount of time he wrongly incarcerated others for.

That’s how you go about Upholstering the Law.

Are you against jails, too? None of these kids were sentenced to death.

Heck, while we’re at it, let’s abolish all laws. That’ll get rid of corrupt judges. :rolleyes:

This comment makes no sense at all. WTF are you talking about?

Good thing, too, because erasing the criminal record of a corpse is not exactly the most useful remedy.

I must be missing the source of the outrage. The judge used two privately owned detention centres. The report doesn’t say that he imposed inappropriate sentences to use them. Clearly what he did was incorrect but unless there is further information confirming that he did impose extra sentences to get extra kickbacks I can not get too excited.

There is a lot of prior information about the inappropriateness of his sentences, which were often more severe than the prosecution recommended, and hinged on his sending people to those two detention centers (for some reason, he was permitted to close the county-owned facility and make exclusive use of them) in exchange for kickbacks. Do a little googling on the judge’s name for details; it’s scattered over a significant period of time.

Strangely enough, I am of the view that sufficient information should be provided within a thread. It should not be required that the reader have to do significant research to understand what is being spoken of.

You’re probably right, but this case has been discussed here a few times already (mostly in the pit, for obvious reasons).

Consider this an introduction.

Thanks- I had missed that.

You are not really this stupid are you?

Juries are the strongest link in this chain. You might read about a case every few years where the jury is just plain wrong, and sometimes that isn’t because of bad reporting. But bad juries are much more uncommon than bad judges or bad lawyers IMHO.