Judge Threatens to Suspend All of Former PA Supreme Court Justice's Sentence

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that the trial judge who sentenced Joan Orie Melvin, a former Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice convicted of political corruption, has now threatened to suspend all of her sentence. Orie Melvin is appealing the part of her sentence ordering her to write letters of apology to every judge in the state on a photograph of herself in handcuffs. That part of the sentence was halted while the appeal is pending. Allegheny Court of Common Pleas Judge Lester Nauhaus will have the case back in court tomorrow.