Rejecting Judge Ann H. Lokuta’s claims that revelations of widespread corruption in the Luzerne County Courthouse warrant a re-examination of her case, the state Court of Judicial Discipline denied Lokuta’s bid to regain her position on the bench in a sharply divided decision Monday.
In an opinion for the four-judge majority in In re Ann H. Lokuta, PICS No. 10-0002 (Pa.CJD) Sprague, J.; Streib, J., dissenting (32 pages) , Judge Richard A. Sprague found that none of the material Lokuta submitted in support of her request for a new sanctions hearing satisfied a four-prong test for the admissibility of after-discovered evidence.
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