The news out of Luzerne County is that the Judicial Commission seeking to remove Luzerne County Judge Ann Lokuta from the bench is demanding that Lokuta and her lawyer Louis Sinatra provide the Commission with the names of the “alleged” federal investigators probing Luzerne County Courts.

Judge Lokuta, the only female Judge in the Luzerne County system, has claimed that a proceeding to remove her from the bench was initiated to retaliate against her for aiding a Federal Probe into Luzerne County Courts. Judge Lokuta and her attorney indicated that they intend to call agents conducting the Federal Probe as witnesses during the hearing to remove Lokuta from the bench.

Lokuta’s Lawyer is now saying that the Judical Commission went to the press with its claims about a demand for the names of the Federal Agents but, that the Commission had not served him with any such demand.

Sinatra said the failure of the state’s Judicial Conduct Board to serve him with a copy of the request filed last week was “pretty serious and disturbing” and something he might have to take to a judge, he said. Times Leader

Under the Category of Opinion and Pure Speculation

What are the chances that A Republican Controlled Federal Government is going to so disrupt a Majority White Court System that BLACKS AND HISPANICS AND ILLEGAL ALIENS convicted of crimes could get new trials or go free?

A Luzerne County Newspaper correctly noted that a Federal Indictment of one or more (or all) of the Judges on Luzerne County’s Court System could result in decisions in all of the cases those judges presided over being reversed and the people convicted getting new trials.

Again, with George Bush in the White House and with United States Attorneys being fired because they are not “conservative enough”, how likely is it that White Male Judges who sent Blacks and Hispanics to Prison are going to be indicted?

The only way we could see White Male Judges getting indicted in Luzerne County by George Bush’s Federal Agents is if all of those White Male Judges are Democrats.

FROM WHERE WE SIT, it appears that a Regime Change is well underway for Luzerne County Courts and that FEDERAL AUTHORITIES may have just gotten CERTAIN JUDGES REMOVED from Luzerne County Courts in a realtively peaceful and nondisruptive manner. In other words,

There may very well HAD BEEN a Federal Probe of Luzerne County Courts but, it appears that A REGIME CHANGE has been effected for Luzerne County Courts without resulting to something as disruptive as an indictment of THE WHITE JUDGES of Luzerne County.

U.S. Told to Pay $101 Million for Framing 4 Men
BOSTON, July 26 — In what appears to be the largest sum of money ever awarded to people who were wrongfully convicted, a judge today ordered the federal government to pay $101.8 million to make amends for framing four men for a murder they did not commit … The men were exonerated after the discovery of secret F.B.I. memos that were never turned over to state prosecutors or defense lawyers during the trial in 1968. The memos indicated that the government’s key witness, a hit man for the mob named Joseph “The Animal” Barboza, had lied when he said the four men had killed the victim, a low-level mobster, Edward Deegan, known as Teddy. NYTIMES[/i]