NSA denies appeal by Stalinist judge for additional pension benefits
The Supreme Administrative Court (NSA) has decided that Stanislaw B, a judge
who in the 1950's issued a death sentence, has no right to receive
additional pension benefits normally accorded to retired judges. Regulations
introduced in 1998 by the National Judiciary Council (KRS) and the Justice
Minister deny extra benefits to judges who worked in Peoples' Republic of
Poland (PRL) organs from 1944 to 1956. Stanislaw B. sentenced a man accused
of planning mass desertion, distributing anti-state leaflets, theft of a
gun, assault of two Communist state police (MO) officers, and using forged
documents. Stanislaw B. says that the KRS decision was based on an illegible
signature on the copy of the verdict and the presumption that since he was a
judge during the years 1944-56, he must have persecuted people. His appeal
has been turned down by NSA, like those of most other judges stripped of
their benefits. (Rzeczpospolita, p.C2) J.K.
