The Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas has just arbitrarily and capriciously REDEFINED what constitutes an implied or actual attorney-client relationship in disqualifying attorney Demetrius Fannick from defending Bryan Kocis murder co-defendant Harlow Cuadra.
It's a sad day for Pennsylvania jurisprudence that we hope will be overturned on appeal.
Now conflict counsel Stephen Menn, Michael Senape and Paul Galante will resume their roles as Cuadra's attorneys - which opens a whole new can of worms.
This case and its background and antecedents is weirder than any movie or soap opera - but there are lives at stake and a life lost. Hopefully the appellate court will reverse this ruling, which in our view sets a very dangerous precedent by allowing a court and prosecutors to essentially play both ends against the middle - while arguably jeapordizing the defendant's right to competent and timely counsel.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Why Harlow Cuadra will walk: Cuadra's letter and what Bryan Kocis told me in 2006 about his guilty plea being "cured"
Responding to all those asking us about Harlow Cuadra's chances of getting off with a light sentence, or even having the case against him dismissed, I will say this: As the last industry reporter to interview BOTH Cuadra and Joe Kerekes the day before their arrests on May 15, 2007, AND exchange detailed communication with them post incarceration, I have discovered something in one of Harlow's letters to me (of which I still have a copy) that ties in DIRECTLY to what the late murder victim BRYAN KOCIS told me by phone in 2006.
This was in regard to his guilty plea in 2002. It has a STRONG CONNECTION to what happened in regard to a little known case brought against a certain gay escort and Soviet bloc video maker who was in DEEP trouble in 2003 until a "cure" was found based on some highly creative negotiations and rumored payoffs...a precedent that very possibly provided the TEMPLATE for the resolution of the Kocis guilty plea in 2006.
I can't say more in view of my strong desire to see justice done and the legal process proceed in this case, but in closing I will make a VERY SIGNIFICANT CONNECTION for you all that almost ALL OTHER REPORTERS HAVE MISSED.
Here it is: It's widely acknowledged in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania that current President Judge Mark Ciavarella was Judge Michael Conahan's handpicked successor. Judge Michael Conahan was the judge overseeing Bryan Kocis' 2002 guilty plea AS WELL AS the judge who "revised" Bryan Kocis' guilty plea in 2006. The actual word Kocis used to me about this was "cured".
Think about that. It has NEVER been satisfactorily explained how Bryan Kocis could operate the business he did out of his house in a residential area OR how he managed to get his guilty plea reclassified and revised. It's simply UNPRECEDENTED. The ONLY POSSIBLE EXPLANATION resides in something that hasn't been admitted to or brought up in any of the depositions or legal filings publicly known to date, although DAMON believes there is SOMETHING locked in the judge's safe that could very well lead to the outright DISMISSAL of ALL charges against Harlow Cuadra EXCEPT being an accessory after the fact...and also lead to the successful prosecution of JOE KEREKES as the person I believe will be shown to be the actual killer, with the death penalty very likely being imposed on Kerekes.
Yes, Bryan Kocis' guilty plea was "cured" because there was a much LARGER issue involved, in my opinion...the true nature and extent of which may never be revealed, but whose possible use at trial (as Cuadra's Atty. Fannick will surely imply) will be enough to greatly mitigate or dismiss the case against Cuadra.
And yes, I believe that Harlow Cuadra and Bryan Kocis had PRIOR CONTACT, unknown and unrevealed, on a different basis than what you might think, specifically in 2006.
PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY for someone or some group much higher up on the food chain is at work here, in the KRUEZER VIEW.
That is my assessment. These are the words of DAMON KRUEZER.
This was in regard to his guilty plea in 2002. It has a STRONG CONNECTION to what happened in regard to a little known case brought against a certain gay escort and Soviet bloc video maker who was in DEEP trouble in 2003 until a "cure" was found based on some highly creative negotiations and rumored payoffs...a precedent that very possibly provided the TEMPLATE for the resolution of the Kocis guilty plea in 2006.
I can't say more in view of my strong desire to see justice done and the legal process proceed in this case, but in closing I will make a VERY SIGNIFICANT CONNECTION for you all that almost ALL OTHER REPORTERS HAVE MISSED.
Here it is: It's widely acknowledged in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania that current President Judge Mark Ciavarella was Judge Michael Conahan's handpicked successor. Judge Michael Conahan was the judge overseeing Bryan Kocis' 2002 guilty plea AS WELL AS the judge who "revised" Bryan Kocis' guilty plea in 2006. The actual word Kocis used to me about this was "cured".
Think about that. It has NEVER been satisfactorily explained how Bryan Kocis could operate the business he did out of his house in a residential area OR how he managed to get his guilty plea reclassified and revised. It's simply UNPRECEDENTED. The ONLY POSSIBLE EXPLANATION resides in something that hasn't been admitted to or brought up in any of the depositions or legal filings publicly known to date, although DAMON believes there is SOMETHING locked in the judge's safe that could very well lead to the outright DISMISSAL of ALL charges against Harlow Cuadra EXCEPT being an accessory after the fact...and also lead to the successful prosecution of JOE KEREKES as the person I believe will be shown to be the actual killer, with the death penalty very likely being imposed on Kerekes.
Yes, Bryan Kocis' guilty plea was "cured" because there was a much LARGER issue involved, in my opinion...the true nature and extent of which may never be revealed, but whose possible use at trial (as Cuadra's Atty. Fannick will surely imply) will be enough to greatly mitigate or dismiss the case against Cuadra.
And yes, I believe that Harlow Cuadra and Bryan Kocis had PRIOR CONTACT, unknown and unrevealed, on a different basis than what you might think, specifically in 2006.
PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY for someone or some group much higher up on the food chain is at work here, in the KRUEZER VIEW.
That is my assessment. These are the words of DAMON KRUEZER.
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