Clinton County Judge Craig Miller had represented the accused's mother before he went on the bench in 2008.
LOCK HAVEN – A Superior Court panel has ruled a Clinton County judge may preside over a homicide trial despite representing the accused son’s mother twice as private attorney before he went on the bench.
Strouse questions the impartiality of Miller noting he and one of the defense attorneys, George E. Lepley Jr., were co-counsel for four homicide trials before the judge went on the bench and they remain friends. he could not identify St. John’s mother when he entered the courtroom and he has had no contact with her since the criminal matters ended in 2006.His priority is justice for the victim and his family that he said has been delayed far too long.21, of Beech Creek, on Feb. 26, 2021, during a gathering in a home in Woodward Twp. across the Susquehanna River from Lock Haven.
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