FC: Stacy Parks Miller is in Harrisburg in front of the PA Supreme Court Disciplinary Board
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Is her best bud Sara Ganim there as a reporter or best friend and character witness?
she reminds me of an old boss I used to have...totally looks and very shallow. She knew all of the buzz words and used them expertly. I recall, in a status call with a key customer, the customer had seen she changed her profile picture on LinkedIn. It was sure to include her long blond hair and too much makeup. The customer started the meeting asking her if she got her new LinkedIn profile picture shot at the local mall "Glamour Shots". She almost pooped her pants and I laughed like hell.
Judges and prosecutors are all part of the same team. Hmmmm........
Justice in Centre County seems to have its own set of rules
Justice in Centre County seems to have its own set of rules
Maybe I just haven’t paid attention to this sort of thing in the past but it’s amazing how many of this crowd are being put in front of a legal disciplinary board.
We had the grand jury judge removed from his duties already. A convicted Philadelphia District Attorney. Stacy Parks Miller is reportedly there now. Aren’t Fina and Cynthia Baldwin coming up soon as well?
We had the grand jury judge removed from his duties already. A convicted Philadelphia District Attorney. Stacy Parks Miller is reportedly there now. Aren’t Fina and Cynthia Baldwin coming up soon as well?
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Yep...but it isn't just Centre County. Recently a local prosecutor got wrung up for asking for sex for a lower charge. And these are the ones that are reported...it is common practice to over charge and withhold information under discovery. Dash cam videos mysteriously disappear or weren't working. My wife has a cop telling a person in her car that she will be found guilty because she is a dumb *unt. Then shows the person how she can turn on and off her recording equipment at the push of a button and saying "oops". Juries believe the cops.
Yes.
Kinda' hard to expect much to come from being "disciplined" by your cohorts (aka "Partners in Crime").
I expect we will see some meaningless "censures"..... the specifics of which will be meaningless and "privileged".
Obviously, this is all waaaaaaaaaay past the point of having any meaningful impact on the stuff that has been deliberated here for the last 6+ years.
(Of course, if those "A7/A5" folks had known how to do a "review", the outcome could have been much different - - - - - but that avenue has long since expired its shelf-life.... too many hats, not enough cattle)
Yeah, I’m not expecting any big results to come from these reviews.
It’s pretty rare for a professional to be put in front of a review board for abuses. That said, it’s pretty glaring how many involved with this group are showing up for (allegedly) violating the law they were supposed to protect and enforce.
You’d think there’d be a story in that somewhere for reporters.......
If it was a PSU admin dragged in front of a review board Charlie Thompson at Pennlive, (and other reporters), would be all over it.
But, ya know, it’s only involved (so far) a grand jury judge, a District attorney from Centre County, a former member of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, a member of the Attorney General’s office and Philly DA’s office, and a former (now convicted) Philadelphia District Attorney.
That’s not worth jumping on. Nothing to see here.
Wondering why DA or even AG would attract anything but the dregs and those who have political aspirations (see One Term and Josh Shapiro) .....there is real money to be made by the best and the brightest in private practice.
Let me see if I have this correct....SPM and staff had 800 text messages to judges presiding over their cases.......when pressed their cell phones were wiped clean........SPM's attorney is the ubiquitous Bruce Castor.....a client whose attorney questioned the ex parte communications was given a draconian sentence. Sounds like the same kind of crooks that work for the OAG.
FWIW - I drove up and sat for the AM & then they broke for lunch. Obviously I haven't been following the SPM case, and have just a cursory knowledge of the ex parte communications, the forged signature and the fake Facebook profile. Folks that know the details were all shaking their heads while Stacy spoke. Apparently she was lying into the microphone. She did get testy & belligerent as the hearing wore on with the Disciplinary Counsel while he questioned her.
It was all just too weird for me. Tom Kline drove up from Philly, volunteering to speak about her professional conduct in the Piazza case. Bruce Castor was there to speak as a character witness in the afternoon session. His partner was arguing for Stacy. (I left once they broke for lunch so I have no idea what Castor said)
Stacy was complaining to the Hearing Board of a grand jury, character assassination, vendettas, texts and emails taken out of context that were used against her. But isn't that exactly what those assholes in the AG's office - along with Louis Freeh - did to 4 principals in her community and torched the place?
Did I miss where the Top Cop in Centre County railed against the AG? Did I miss where Stacy vociferously spoke out about these assholes using Sara Ganim and Penn Live to fuel a bullshit narrative that just rolled over the constitutional rights of Tim, Gary, Graham & Joe, then went on to harm student/athletes, local livelihoods & families?
It was all too weird. Everyone was operating in their own orbit and didn't seem to see the bigger picture - and as I strode out into the sunshine outside the Judicial Center, I just had to laugh out loud.
And I left.
The only reporters there were Gary Sinderson and Jeremy Hartley (CDT)
It was all just too weird for me. Tom Kline drove up from Philly, volunteering to speak about her professional conduct in the Piazza case. Bruce Castor was there to speak as a character witness in the afternoon session. His partner was arguing for Stacy. (I left once they broke for lunch so I have no idea what Castor said)
Stacy was complaining to the Hearing Board of a grand jury, character assassination, vendettas, texts and emails taken out of context that were used against her. But isn't that exactly what those assholes in the AG's office - along with Louis Freeh - did to 4 principals in her community and torched the place?
Did I miss where the Top Cop in Centre County railed against the AG? Did I miss where Stacy vociferously spoke out about these assholes using Sara Ganim and Penn Live to fuel a bullshit narrative that just rolled over the constitutional rights of Tim, Gary, Graham & Joe, then went on to harm student/athletes, local livelihoods & families?
It was all too weird. Everyone was operating in their own orbit and didn't seem to see the bigger picture - and as I strode out into the sunshine outside the Judicial Center, I just had to laugh out loud.
And I left.
The only reporters there were Gary Sinderson and Jeremy Hartley (CDT)
Thanks for the report and shedding some light on what went on in the morning session. This is being held right in Pennlive’s back yard and they had no one there to cover it? Charlie Thompson? Anyone? Shocking.
The texts to officers of the court are egregious, IMHO.Thanks for the report and shedding some light on what went on in the morning session. This is being held right in Pennlive’s back yard and they had no one there to cover it? Charlie Thompson? Anyone? Shocking.
I’m certainly not an expert on the Stacy Parks Miller’s accusations but, if it’s true, that she or her office are having back room text conversations with judges during trials it should be headline news around the state.
She's already admitted to it....couldn't help it, they were discovered in right to know filings.
Good grief. What a litany of items that scream out loud, "What judicial ethics?"
Some people are called to public service and value doing good much more highly than doing well.
Others have very personal reasons. When I was a law clerk after my second year of law school, I was involved in a murder trial where the DA tried the case himself rather than letting an assistant DA have first chair. Not that I had seen many closing arguments for comparison, but he gave an impassioned, powerful closing that made the facts adduced at trial seem more persuasive than they actually were. I later learned that he had become a prosecutor because his younger brother had been murdered in his early 20s, just when life should have been starting, not ending.
Money is important, but once the basic needs of life are satisfied there are things far important to a meaningful existence in the short time we're on this planet.
That pesky "self-actualization" piece of the pyramid means something far different to the folks who can only realize their self-actualization via power. Or who think that is the only way. And their definition is very disturbing for the vast majority of people who have a far more ethically-centered self-actualization goal.
I'm guessing your 0.2% was stated with at least some hyperbole, but your point is well taken (and/or I may simply be more optimistic than you). It seems as though too few care to truly serve the greater good.
"Parks Miller is accused of engaging in ex parte communications with judges. One of them, Centre County Judge Jonathan Grine, has already accepted a letter of counsel from the Judicial Conduct Board."
^^ Is that the same Judge Grine who served as a director at The Second Mile and court-ordered kids into Sandusky's custody against their parents' wishes, or is this his son?
Charlie Thompson? Anyone? Shocking.
LMAO at Charlie. Nope. No one from PennLive was there.
Again - I just have to laugh at what is lost in the scheme of things. The Centre County community was torched to the tune of how much? Along with the remaining tires shot out at an already stressed Child Protective Services across the state - and how many had their reputations and personal/professional lives destroyed - over "3 slapping sounds" and 3 emails taken out of context.
Which was then spun into a wild conspiracy and cover up, and never EVER questioned by the Centre County DA. A DA which NEVER felt a responsibility to hold the leadership accountable over at Second Mile and maybe sniff around a money trail or fraudulent counseling practices.
What.The.Hell.
This is Jonathan Grine, the son of David Grine to whom you refer.
I'll acknowledge that there are individuals who respond to a "higher calling".....I just have never encountered one in the flesh and I certainly have not identified any working in The Commonwealth OAG.
I wish there were a whole lot more whistle blowers and muckrakers out there following the activities of people like the old guard BOT, SPM, Tom Kline, the Porn Mongers, and Corbutt.
Barry, Wendy, and ChiTown (and a couple other folks whose names I have surely omitted) are just not enough. Particularly given how inert and (apparently) apathetic the A9, the CDT, and the Inquirer have been.
Barry, Wendy, and ChiTown (and a couple other folks whose names I have surely omitted) are just not enough. Particularly given how inert and (apparently) apathetic the A9, the CDT, and the Inquirer have been.
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Thanks. Wonder if "the Judge who made the tough call" ever saw any disciplinary action.
I've met and worked with many, including some in the Court of Common Pleas where I clerked. Met some petty tyrants, too, but they were mostly in law enforcement, not prosecutorial offices. Mercifully, my experience has never crossed paths with corrupt shitbags like Frank Fina or Seth Williams.
Actually, I did cross paths with Seth Williams as an undergrad. He was annoyed and offended I wouldn't sign his divestment petition and came across as a pompous, self-important jackass. As a pompous jackass myself, I can smell 'em a mile away.
Hope he enjoys his taxpayer-funded stay at the federal Appalachian vacation resort in Morgantown. Maybe he'll hear the roar from Mountaineer Field on Saturdays this fall; he's only a few miles away.
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Interesting quote in that story:
Castor described Parks Miller as "absolutely the best courtroom lawyer, as a prosecutor, that I've ever seen."
Anyone buying that? I haven't seen her in court, but I'm certainly surprised to read that based on everything else I know about her. It doesn't seem to fit. She does at least seem to have some concern for victims, but she let her emotion overrule her logic, leading her to overcharge things and apparently break the rules if it served her end goal. It sounds like she's guilty of pretty much everything charged and doesn't seem to see the problem with it. She should at the least be suspended for a while.
Maybe he meant "absolutely the best-looking courtroom lawyer." I've seen some butt-ugly prosecutors in my day.
Eschbach, Ditka to name 2.
She and Castor are thick as thieves. She practically put him on the Centre County payroll when he was "in between jobs."
Sounds like he’d say anything for favors of a certain type that SPM can provide.
Her numerous wildly improper outbursts in open court, and her penchant for trying cases in the court of public opinion, both suggest that she is anything BUT a good lawyer. Wonder how many contempt citations she managed to ring up. I doubt that the Piazza prosecution was the only one.
One of the judges, Brad Lunsford, immediately and unexpectedly “retired” right after this came out.
Don’t even “hint” at such innuendo otherwise “certain posters” will “flit out” from their roosts and label you a_____
Interesting. I'm intrigued how Frank Fina is capable of doing a 180 in this case, arguing his client had no legal obligation (let alone a moral one), and has complained that media reports are harming his client. So I wonder if any corruption on the part of the DA that gets exposed will have him all up in arms as well.
The irony in ALL of this, from the same names that keep swirling around in the background, is thick. And it's utterly lost on these players.
But what the hell do I know.
"Slapping Sounds"
