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trial," Knniek said, pledging to “put an ond to iiimm'ssarv plea bargaining."
it' elected, Konick promised to have "more jury trials to give the people of this community direct input in the criminal justice system."
"You know my reputation for putting everything I’ve got into my cases,” Konick told the audience. “I’m looking forward to putting my time and energy into the job of commonwealth’s attorney.”
I’etcr II. Luke
“It’s very easy to make promises," commonwealth's attorney Peter Luke told the audience at last Wednesday’s (drum. Candidates "know w hat people want to hear and they're tempted to say it to get the votes...I've tried to avoid that, to avoid running up political debts that will be called in later.”
Luke offered two campaign promises', "to do the job to the best of my ability and to treat all people fairly and equally under the law."
Luke addressed two issues w hich he said keep rising in the campaign for commonwealth’s attorney. He noted that he was a prosecutor for four years in the Air force where, by regulat ion. plea bargaining is not allowed. "So I’ve operated in that system and in systems that have plea bargaining. ..There is another reason for plea bargaining besides a heavy court
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