hat, unfortunately, has not been the case. And it has been, in large part, because of the injudicious conduct of presiding Commonwealth Court Judge Albert F. Sabo.

Perhaps it is not relevant that he holds America's record for sending defendants to death row. Perhaps it is not relevant that he is reputed to see things the prosecution's way.

Those are not the facts that have led us to question his temperament and good sense. It has been seeing him in action in a highly charged case, in a volatile courtroom.

He has allowed himself to be drawn into petty fights with defense lawyer Leonard Weinglass, an attorney with a long career of baiting judges in trials he has orchestrated into causes celebres. Mr. Weinglass has fished far beyond the limits of what the law allows in such proceedings; he has had a heyday insulting the judge in the press, and sometimes to his face.
