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"State court leaves room for Lokuta"

"State court leaves room for Lokuta": Today's edition of The Citizens Voice of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania contains an article that begins, "Ann H. Lokuta won a huge victory in her fight to regain her seat on the Luzerne County bench Wednesday when the state Supreme Court stopped an election to replace her and opened the door for a possible reargument of her case. The state's highest court stayed a state Court of Judicial Discipline decision removing Lokuta from the bench. It also ordered the discipline court to determine whether it should reconsider that decision in the light of federal corruption charges lodged against three high-ranking county court officials who testified against Lokuta." The newspaper also reports today that "Judicial candidates undeterred by ruling."

And today's edition of The The Times Leader of Wilkes-Barre contains articles headlined "Ruling: Keep Lokuta seat off ballot; Decision removing judge from office stayed" and "Ruling could keep seat empty until 2012; Although Lokuta not serving, state Supreme Court's order means her seat is not vacant."

You can access yesterday's order of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania at this link. And former Judge Lokuta's application for a stay can be accessed here.

Full post as published by How Appealing on March 26, 2009 (boomark / email).