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Dec. 13—WILKES-BARRE — A Chester County attorney has filed a motion in Luzerne County Court asking that all Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas judges recuse themselves from a child custody ...
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 ...
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.
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.
The Court of Common Pleas judge hearing the Centre County case dismissed it Friday as improperly filed, without addressing the county's decision to count the ballots. In Luzerne County, the judge ...
In 2021, Toohil ran for the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas. She was successful, and effectively resigned from the House of Representatives on December 31, 2022. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] She was sworn in as a judge on January 3, 2022.
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 ...