HARRISBURG -- Former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella is in court in Harrisburg Thursday asking for a new trial.
Ciavarella was convicted in 2011 of fraud and money laundering in connection with the "Kids for Cash" scandal involving Luzerne County's juvenile detention center.
The former judge claims his defense lawyers did not do their jobs and that prosecutors did not disclose important evidence in the case.
Bob Smith
I remembered this story when, I lived in Texas….. It was on news world wide. He denied kids an attorney and making them to stay longer in jail so, he was earning lot of cash including kickbacks and didn’t report to IRS.
Poor attorney…. Oh really? I hope it will be denied again….. Also that snake lost everything including his wife too.
Ron McLaughlin
MF’r–Yea give him anew trial and have all the kids in the front row whose lives he ruined sit–then double his sentence !!!
Bob Smith
He got 28 years sentence and kids were released and their records were wiped clean.
Plus another former judge was sentenced less…. I don’t recall his name.
Jimbo
Give him a new trial. Double or nothing. Capital punishment on the line. Still interested?
i quit..
pa system is a JOKE. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!!
Pahomegrown
Aww poor man, the only thing he should get is more soap on a rope…lol..
RJELQ
What a crum! hes just as bad as the penn state administrators!
seen it all
Time to stop costing taxpayers money for crooked Judges , So just deny his request like he did to everyone who went before him expecting justice – I can list 6 corrupt judges right now and 4 still om bench! Does PA even have a valid court system with the Atty Generals office so corrupted ( and Judicial conduct board) This Judge got top pay and still was a crook.
Deez Nutz
Don’t blame your lawyers, you were a judge and knew all the rules. He needs to accept what he did was disgraceful and stop wasting anymore taxpayers money. He is just an arrogant SOB that should spend the rest of his life in prison, not a minimum security country club either.
He's just the tip of nepa's iceberg
I agree. I have always been against torture until this guy came along.