Commonwealth v. Banks

ORDER

AND NOW, this 27th day of August, 2009, the proposed findings that the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County set forth contemporaneously with its “order” of September 8, 2008 and then referenced in its “order” of December 23, 2008 are hereby rejected. The presiding judge, former Judge Michael T. Conahan, simply adopted appellee George Banks’ counsel’s proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law wholesale as his purported “Determination on Competency Issues.” That performance violated this Court’s oft-repeated requirement of an autonomous judicial expression of the reasons for…