Hugoland

Dave Iseman had a funny column in Friday's TL:

Just when you thought the news about Hugo Selenski couldn't get any weirder, the prosecutor is trying to prosecute the judge. District Attorney Dave Lupas says Judge Peter Paul Olszewski is biased in favor of Hugo, an ex-con suspected of doing more bad things than maybe anyone who ever lived in Luzerne County. Lupas says Peter Paul showed favoritism toward the defense in Hugo's first trial when Hugo was acquitted of double-murder charges. So, Lupas argues, Olszewski shouldn't be permitted to preside over a second trial involving different double-murder charges.

Ah, Hugoland, where the intrigue never ends.

He then recounts all the twists and turns this case has taken from the initial big dig in his backyard, a PSU student who went missing in a bunny costume on Halloween, the escape using bedsheets only to have him turn up at his house, then the escape charges getting tossed because the DA is incompetent, Hugo's house being sold to Free Hugo "T-shirts."

Then the DA and some of the families of the victims attacked one one of the finest men I have ever known, Judge Peter Paul Olszewski Jr., as being biased in favor of the defense. They want him to recuse himself from the case and today they got their wish.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) -Granting a request by prosecutors, a judge recused himself Wednesday from the murder trial of a convicted bank robber who lived on property where authorities found as many as 12 sets of human remains.
Luzerne County Judge Peter Paul Olszewski Jr. strongly defended himself against attacks from county prosecutors but concluded that the "greater good" required him to step down.

Be careful what you wish for Mr. District Attorney, Chet Muroski knows what the job of the DA is. If you lose this case Mr. Lupas I suggest you go back to locking up all the drug dealers like you promised in your first campaign. We all know what a success that has been.