Report Card On State's Judges ; Editorials

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The Luzerne County juvenile-court scandal could provide impetus to what is a bold proposal: performance evaluations for judges.

Clifford E. Haines, president of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, made such a proposal to an ad hoc commission looking into the Luzerne mess, in which two judges allegedly railroaded scores of juvenile defenders in exchange for kickbacks.

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Report Card On State's Judges ; Editorials

Haines called on the state to establish a panel that would issue "report cards" on judges, as is done in 17 other states.

"It (evaluation) is a deterr...

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