In July, Magisterial District Judge Rita A. Arnold pleaded with the state Court of Judicial Discipline to let her keep her “dream” job at a sanctions hearing, and it agreed, citing her extreme remorse and dispensing a month’s unpaid suspension.
On Tuesday, less than eight months after she returned to her elected post, the 56-year-old jurist resigned after her arrest by state agents, a news release from the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office said.
The release said her arrest follows allegations that she concealed a citation in order to protect one of her sons from a potential probation violation, the same accusations that prompted the complaint by the Judicial Conduct Board in February 2012.
Full article and Source:
Magisterial Districe Judge Resigns After Arrest
Self-help does not pay!
ReplyDeleteThe thing is what she did back in July she should have been disbarred for.
ReplyDeleteNot too bright; is she?
ReplyDeleteNo, Luis, she sure doesn't seem to have all her lights on.
ReplyDelete