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Dec. 26—WILKES-BARRE — A senior judge with no ties to the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas will likely be assigned to preside over the divorce and child custody cases of a couple after a ...
The kids for cash scandal centered on judicial kickbacks to two judges at the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, US. [1] In 2008, judges Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella were convicted of accepting money in return for imposing harsh adjudications on juveniles to increase occupancy at a private prison operated ...
Michael Thomas Conahan [1] is an American convicted felon and former judge. He received a J.D. degree from Temple University and went on to serve from 1994 to 2007 as judge on the Court of Common Pleas for Luzerne County.
Mark Arthur Ciavarella Jr. (born March 3, 1950) is an American convicted felon and former President Judge of the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, who was involved, along with fellow judge Michael Conahan, in the "kids for cash" scandal in 2008, [4] for which he was sentenced to 28 years in federal prison in 2011.
While Watson's case in Luzerne County has slowly proceeded forward, he was convicted by a federal jury in U.S. District Court in Scranton of recording four videos and one still image of himself ...
President judges of the courts of Luzerne County who were depicted included: John Handley (1835-1895); John B. Gibson (1780-1853), who later became Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court; Jacob Rush (1746-1820), the first president judge of Luzerne County's court system and a former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice; Thomas Cooper ...
The courts of common pleas are organized into 60 judicial districts, 53 comprising one of Pennsylvania's 67 counties, and seven comprising two counties. Each district has from one to 101 judges. Judges of the common pleas courts are elected to ten-year terms. A president judge and a court administrator serve in each judicial district. In ...
Apr. 29—WILKES-BARRE — Chris Huntzinger, 117th District Committee Chair, has been elected temporary Chairman of the Republican Party of Luzerne County. The Luzerne County Republican Executive ...