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I'm a Pennsylvania attorney who had the utter displeasure of
dealing with former Monroe County District Attorney Pazuhanich.
He has since become a judge and been
charged with sexually molesting his 10 year-old relative.
The first time I saw him he struck me as a total no-good-nik. Then I read some articles that had been written about him in the Pocono Record. In the late 1980s or early 1990s Pazuhanich, as a DA, charged a 9 year-old boy with murder and wanted to try him as an adult. Judge Ronald Vican, President Judge of Monroe County Court of Common Pleas, supported Pazuhanich in his quest and even wrote an opinion in the case citing "legal rational" for trying a 9 year-old in adult criminal court. If the case had gone to trial and the 9 year-old had been convicted, would the boy have been sentenced to death? Would he have been sent to SCI-Camp Hill for "classification?" Wvhen Pazuhanich was running for Monroe County DA in the 1990s, his campaign promise was to try more death penalty cases. Of course, he won the election!. So, whether warranted or not, (under Pennsylvania's enumerated aggravating circumstances) many defendants were being tried for capital murder and facing the death penalty in Monroe County. The frequency with which death penalty cases were being tried in Monroe County from 1998 to 2001 was astonishing! Like it was Philly! DA Pazuhanich and Monroe County were frequent recipients of state monies from the state Attorney General's office (circa 1996- 2000) for the big war on drugs. The only problem was, the site of the big drug raids would be shut down at the time of the raid, but reopened again in about a year. Drug dealers would set up shop there, then the place would be raided. They shut down and soon reopened. There's lots more, an illegal search and seizure on a Greyhound bus, for example. Hey, check out the Pocono Record archives, allegations of child molestation might not seem so surprising. Have you ever noticed how the most extreme law-n-order types are often the ones doing the most wrong themselves? You are welcome to use or republish
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