The fact that Former Judges Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella appointed attorneys to Luzerne County’s Conflict Counsel Pool WITHOUT ADVERTISING the vacancies is Joseph Kerekes’ Get Out of Jail Free Card

Hours after settling his predecessor’s budget-related lawsuit against the Luzerne County commissioners Friday, President Judge Chester B. Muroski took care of two more items on his week-one agenda: officially voiding Judge Mark A. Ciavarella’s expensive pay scheme for conflict counsel attorneys and advertising for two positions on the prison board. Citizensvoice.com

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that the method by which Judges Conahan and Ciavarella selected attorneys to appoint to Luzerne County’s Conflict Counsel Pool will be the basis for one of the next big scandals out of Luzerne County.

Former President Judges Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella appear to have appointed attorneys to the Conflict Counsel pool without advertising the vacancies … You had two Judges who were sending kids to jail for kickbacks. How do YOU think these two corrupt Judges decided what lawyers to give Court Jobs to?

In addition to the scandal of how the Conflict Counsels were Chosen, you have the fact that Judge Olszweski, the Bryan Kocis Murder Trial Judge, had to know that Conahan and Ciavarella weren’t advertising vacancies for the Conflict Counsel Pool.

Judge Olszweski removed Demetrius Fannick as Harlow Cuadra’s lawyer and assigned Cuadra a lawyer from Mark Ciavarella’s Conflict Counsel Pool of Attorneys. In order to justify removing Demtrius Fannick as Cuadra’s lawyer, Olszweksi had to re-define the definition of an implied attorney client relationship in The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania .

Orders of The Court
Appointments made by former president judges Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. and Michael T. Conahan …
Jan. 5 2007 , Shelley Centini, conflict counsel attorney (part-time), $26,162 Citizensvoice.com

Attorney Shelley Centini was appointed to the Conflict Counsel Pool by Mark Ciavarell and, Centini represented Joseph Kerekes when Kerekes was somehow convinced to plead guilty to killing Bryan Kocis.

It will be interesting to see how Judge Olszweski wiggles his way Out From Under Bryan Kocis’ Headless Corpse.