Summary
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.See the full content of this document
Extract
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...See the full content of this document
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