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WILKES-BARRE – A former Luzerne County Juvenile Probation official who pleaded guilty to altering a juvenile’s record is among the witnesses scheduled to testify next week before a commission formed to investigate failings within the county’s juvenile justice system.
WILKES-BARRE – Luzerne County Judge Peter Paul Olszewski’s bid for retention was essentially doomed the day a photo of him posing with a convicted drug dealer and disgraced former colleague was made public, a local political analyst said.
HARRISBURG – The state Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned a $3.5 million defamation verdict against The Citizens’ Voice newspaper and ordered a new trial, ruling there was a “pervasive appearance of impropriety” in how the case was assigned to and handled by former Luzerne County judge Mark Ciavarella.
A former Luzerne County Juvenile Probation official who pleaded guilty to illegally altering a juvenile's record is among the witnesses scheduled to testify next week before a commission formed to investigate failings within the county's juvenile justice system.
WILKES-BARRE – Like jurors weighing evidence in a trial, Luzerne County voters rendered a verdict in the judicial retention race Tuesday, and it was a split decision.
WILKES-BARRE – In light of Thursday’s state Supreme Court ruling that vacated the convictions of thousands of juveniles, Luzerne County officials are debating how to go about identifying adult offenders who might be eligible for a reduced sentence.
WHITE HAVEN – Laurene Transue thought the teenagers were kidding.
WILKES-BARRE – Tipped off that a county judge was improperly incarcerating juveniles for minor offenses, attorneys for the Juvenile Law Center knew there was just one way to get to the truth:
HARRISBURG – Seeking to remedy what it deemed a “travesty of justice,” the state Supreme Court on Thursday vacated the convictions of all juveniles who appeared before former Judge Mark Ciavarella from 2003 to 2008 and barred retrials in all but a small portion of those cases.
WILKES-BARRE – Attorney Dan Segal couldn’t help but think of what might have been.
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