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Judicial Conduct Board
225 Market Street
Harrisburg, Pa 17101-2126
November
12, 2001
To whom it may concern:
My name is David Kearns, I live in Blair County and am writing in
regards to my
brother’s (Robert G. Kearns, Jr.) complaint he filed with the Judicial Conduct
Board
(Complaint No. 01-115).
What I find as repulsive is my brother received one of this board’s
patented rubber stamped form letters dated July 25, 2001. It stated the
JCB did the necessary inquiry and could not find basis for further actions
against Judge Hiram A. Carpenter. I wish to take issue with that
determination.
First off, I, along with numerous other witnesses participated in
and sat through my brother’s custody case ( Docket No. 96 GN 2139) before
Carpenter. I and other
witnesses had the opportunity to review the transcripts from those hearings and
was
stunned to discover the testimony was extensively altered by individuals in the
employ of the Blair County Court. Since Carpenter approved those
transcripts as accurate implicates him as the number one suspect to this crime.
Secondly, the audio tapes of these hearings contained the most solid
evidence to the tampering that this board chose to ignore.
Apparently this complaint was of such a serious nature that the
board decided to cover up Carpenter’s crimes unlike the inquiry against Blair
County judge Norman D. Callan where audio tapes from one of his hearings were
disclosed and recently aired on a local radio program. Of course the
Callan case was a slap on the wrist offense and not a crime to the degree of
record tampering that would have required a criminal prosecution against one of
this boards anointed ones.
What I would like to know is, what exactly does this conduct board
do and why is it still in existence? When people do turn in judges who
commit “Judicial Misconduct” and felonies such as record tampering, this
board fails its obligations to provide justice established by the United States
Constitution --Amendment Fourteen and its mandates prescribed by
Pennsylvania’s Constitution to investigate and sanction judges. In
essence the JCB is just as bad as the perpetrators of these crimes (the judges)
while becoming conspirators and enablers who overlook and cover up judicial
corruption.
Point in issue, had the JCB done its duties, Judge Norman D. Callan would
not have been voted out of his office, he would have been removed by the state
Supreme Court. Fortunately for the public his retention had come up this year.
Yet by and through this boards dereliction there is still another corrupt
judge in Blair County who will be sitting on the bench and violating peoples
rights for seven more years. Maybe the JCB should be renamed the “Judicial
Misconduct Board” for allowing Callan to break judicial Canons and Carpenter
to tamper with court records.
If I was to grade the JCB’s job performance on a report card it
would fail. Question, with who and where do we file a criminal complaint
against the Judicial Conduct Board? Do we have to have legislation enacted to
clean out this nest of corruption namely the Judicial Conduct Board?
cc: Governor Mark Schweiker
Lieutenant Governor Robert C. Jubelirer
Pennsylvanians For Modern Courts
Sincerely,
David
Kearns
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