A federal appeals court has ruled that former Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas Judge Mark Ciavarella is entitled to a new trial on three vacated convictions for racketeering, racketeering conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy, but rejected his attempt to rely on precedent set by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2016 ruling in McDonnell v. United States.

Ciavarella was sentenced in 2011 to 27 years’ imprisonment for accepting $2.8 million in kickbacks, along with fellow Judge Michael Conahan, from the builder and former co-owner of a private juvenile detention facility.

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