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The legal system in America IS Adversarial and, every Defense Attorney has an obligation to act in the interest of his client. Given this and the NEVER ENDING SCANDALs circulating around The Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas, it would essentially amount to MALPRACTICE for a Defense Attorney with a client before The Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas to NOT petition for A Change of Venue.

What do you suppose is going to happen when EVERY CRIMINAL DEFENDANT before The Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas is petitioning the PA Supreme Court for a Change of Venue?

Attorneys for accused killer Harlow Cuadra have asked for a change of venue and a trial separate … Citizens Voice

Philadelphia based Juvenile Law Center, The PA Attorney General AND a PA Child Welfare Agency are all petitioning the PA Supreme Court to take immediate jurisdiction over 500 juvenile Cases presided over by President Judge Mark Civarella of The Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas.

IF Every Defense Attorney with a criminal case before The Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas ALSO files a petition with The PA Supreme Court for a Change of Venue, as they should be required to do in order to avoid a charge of malpractice, Pennsylvania Judicial Officials should be forced to Shut Down The Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas.

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Luzerene County Court of Common Pleas

1. The Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas has been described by Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Judicial Authorities as Dysfunctional.

2. Since the death of Bryan Kocis in January 2007, there have been never ending scandals erupting about the way The Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas operates. Bryan Kocis’ 2002 guilty plea was completely changed in 2004 by Judge Michael Conahan. Kocis was represented by Al Flora, Jr, Flora is the second in command of the Luzerne County Public Defender’s Office and, Flora has not been heard from on 500 juveniles before Judge Ciavarella not having lawyers. The “correction” to Kocis’ guilty plea retro-actively explained the fact that Bryan Kocis never registered as a sex offender as required by his “initial” guilty plea.

3. The latest and biggest scandal surrounding The Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas has President Judge Mark Ciavarella “processing” more than 500 children through juvenile court without asking the children if they knew they had a right to legal representation. PA law REQUIRED that Ciavarella ask the juveniles ON THE RECORD if they knew they had a right to lawyers. Neither The Luzerne County DA’s Office nor The Luzerne County Public Defender’ s Office blew the whistle on the fact that more than half of the children before Judge Ciavarella did not have lawyers. It took the PHILADELPHIA BASED Juvenile Law Center to file a lawsuit with Pennsylvania Supreme Court asking the Court to exercise King’s Bench Authority and take immediate jurisdiction over the 500+ juvenile cases before President Judge Mark Ciavarella. Both a PA Child Welfare Agency AND the PA Attorney General have joined with the Philadelphia Juvenile Law Center’s petititon.