"There are issues with it," Michael Roke said Tuesday of central court. "Everybody you talk to doesn't want to do it. It makes it worse." Central court was one of the initiatives proposed by Luzerne ...County Court of Common Pleas Judge Michael Conahan when he assumed the position of president judge in 2002. The plan was designed to centralize preliminary hearings to streamline the county's criminal cases, ensure a defendant's rights, reduce the county's prison population, and ease the burden of local police. Under the system scheduled to start in February, a defendant will have a preliminary hearing at one of two locations before one of the county's district judges. The judges will be assigned to the court on a rotating schedule and will hear only preliminary hearings in criminal cases, except homicides. District judges will preside over homicides and all other district court matters at their individual offices. The county's central court will be located at the Thomas C. Thomas building in Wilkes-Barre, and at an undisclosed location in Hazleton. That's where the problems arise, Roke said in a letter to the Times Leader. The patrolman said residents elect district judges to preside over cases in their communities.
In Remember Little Rock Erin Krutko Devlin explores public memories surrounding the iconic Arkansas school desegregation crisis of 1957 and shows how these memories were vigorously contested and ...sometimes deployed against the cause. Delving into a wide variety of sources, from memoirs to televised docudramas, commemoration ceremonies, and the creation of Little Rock High museums, Devlin reveals how many white moderates proclaimed Little Rock a victory for civil rights and educational equality even as segregation persisted. At the same time, African American activists, students, and their families asserted their own stories in the ongoing fight for racial justice.
Devlin also demonstrates that public memory directly bears on law and policy. She argues that the triumphal narrative of civil rights has been used to stall school desegregation, support tokenism, and to roll back federal court oversight of school desegregation, voter registration, and efforts to promote diversity in public institutions. Remember Little Rock examines the chasm between the rhetoric of the "post--civil rights" era and the reality of enduring racial inequality.
Her husband, Maurice A. Rokes, died in 1985. She leaves two sons, David A. Rokes of Port Charlotte, Florida and C. Brian Rokes and his wife, Eleanor of Hopewell Junction, New York; three daughters, ...Gretchen J.
Many who were present thought a particular passage, written by Tim Gregg, encapsulated Ryan's best feature: "Ryan Furlow was outgoing and very open to new people. He always accepted people and ...counted them in. No one was left out with Ryan. Everyone was his friend." "There were 25 kids on that team, including Ryan," Adam Rokes said. "The other 24 came to me and said they'd rather forfeit than play without Ryan. "So we forfeited because, that way, then Ryan could play. That's how much those kids thought of him. It really was a tight-knit group and a big part of that closeness was the way Ryan treated everyone else."
