PA Supreme Court Reverses Hundreds Of Juvenile Convictions

Judge Michael T. Conahan (Photo: Niko J. Kallianiotis for NYT)

You may remember my post about Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan, the Pennsylvania judges that were accused of taking kickbacks to send juveniles to privately-run detention centers.

Last month, the judges pleaded guilty to fraud and now face 7 years in jail. (That’s it?!)

Today, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court has advised “expunging the records of low-level offenders who appeared in Ciavarella’s courtroom without lawyers — a group he has said numbered ‘easily into the hundreds.'”

Pennsylvania law stupidly allows juveniles to waive their right to counsel if done “knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily” and if the judge explains the juvenile’s rights to him/her. The Supreme Court determined that most of the juveniles that waived their right to counsel in Ciavarella’s court did not do so according to the above conditions.

The Supreme Court will next examine more serious juvenile convictions from Ciavarella and Conahan’s courts.

Source: Convictions Reversed In Pennsylvania (AP)

Baby Daddy Alfie Not The Baby Daddy!

Photo: Lee Thompson

Remember this little clusterfuck?

Well, it turns out barely four feet tall 13-year-old Alfie is not the father. Apparently the 15-year-old mother was slutting it up something crazy and her mother told her to lie and say she was a virgin when she met and had sex with Alfie, in hopes she they could make some money off of the tabloid interviews that would inevitably follow. (And the Mom of the Year Award goes to…).

Thankfully (?), a trusty DNA test cleared everything up; i.e.,  they used Alfie and the newborn as tools in a massive and disgusting scam.

I don’t have any more energy to spend on this ignorant trash. If you do, you can read the story here.