By C1 Staff
SUNBURY, Pa. — A corrections officer who was acquitted of charges of delivering contraband to inmates may have to serve time after all, due to a judge’s tardiness.
According to Penn Live, Northumberland County President Judge Robert B. Sacavage entered a judgement of acquittal after Kazimir C. Grohowski appealed his conviction of three charges of delivering contraband to inmates.
Senior Deputy Attorney General David C. Gorman claimed that Grohowski’s appeals had been all used up, but Grohowski’s defense lawyer disputes that.
The attorney general’s office appealed the acquittal and a three-judge Superior Court panel ordered the original sentence of 10 years to be reinstated because Sacavage failed to rule within the required 120 days. It did not address the merits of the case.
The state Supreme Court refused to accept Grohowski’s appeal.
Sacavage took senior status at the end of the year and is vacationing in Hawaii.