Former Justice Consents To Disbarment

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has accepted the consent to disbarment of their former colleague Joan Orie Melvin.

The consent was a result of the criminal conviction of the former jurist.

As part of the sentence, Respondent was removed from the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and was to write apology letters to her staff and to every Common Pleas Court and intermediate appellate court judge in Pennsylvania, as well as to the Justices of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

(Mike Frisch)