It's been quite a week for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. First, Justice Seamus P. McCaffery resigned from the court after he was suspended by his fellow justices amid allegations that he sent pornographic emails, attempted to fix his wife's traffic ticket, allowed his wife to receive thousands and thousands of dollars in referral fees from law firms and may have "attempted to exert influence" in judicial court appointments in Philadelphia, the Allentown Morning Call reports. Then today Joan Orie Melvin, who was convicted of using the resources of her chambers on her judicial campaigns, has dropped her appeal, the Associated Press reports. The Pennsylvania Superior Court upheld Melvin's conviction and sentence, including the order requiring her to send apology letters to every judge in Pennsylvania. But the Superior Court rejected the part of the order requiring Melvin to write the apologies on copies of a snapshot of her in handcuffs.
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