Court Upholds 28-Year Sentence for 'Kids-for-Cash' Judge Ciavarella
“Ciavarella essentially seeks to parlay the vacatur of three of six grouped counts into a de novo resentencing, to reopen virtually all factual findings made by the jury and the sentencing judge and affirmed on appeal, and to roll the dice in hopes of a more lenient sentence from a different judicial officer,” Middle District Judge Christopher Conner wrote.