The state Supreme Court has affirmed former Luzerne County Judge Ann H. Lokuta’s removal from the bench, seemingly bringing to an end a protracted saga involving allegations of prejudice, selective prosecution and judicial conflicts of interest.
In a 35-page majority opinion in In re Ann H. Lokuta , Justice J. Michael Eakin wrote for a 4-1 majority that Lokuta failed to develop several of her arguments, waived others and, overall, offered too many tenuous pieces of evidence in an attempt to show a conspiracy against her.
