I was curious to what the track record's been for the Luzerne County DA's office winning murder convicitons for this year, and last. I was quite surprised to see that every trial for 2007 & 2006 ended with the defendent either pleading, or being found guilty by a jury... with the exception of one:
12/06 Louis Patrick: found guilty of first-degree murder
11/21 Charles “Chip” Leach: pleads guilty to third-degree murder
10/27 Jeffrey Dennis : found guilty of first-degree murder
09/22 William Rohland: found guilty of first-degree murder
08/21 Brandon Scott Dennison: pleads guilty to third-degree murder
06/13 Samuel Wright: pleads guilty to to first-degree murder
... and the list goes on... that is until Hugo Selenski was found not guilty of homicide by a jury back on March 15, 2006. Interestingly, Selenski's attorney was the same one Joseph Kerekes is said to be talking about hiring: Demetrius Fannick.
