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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

616 A.2d 641
    In re Former Judge Arthur D. DALESSANDRO.
    No. 742 Disciplinary Docket No. 2.
    No. 34 DB 90—Disciplinary Board.
    Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
    Nov. 19, 1992.
   ORDER

PER CURIAM.

AND NOW, this 19th day of November, 1992, the Petition for Reinstatement of License to Practice Law is granted.

LARSEN, J., did not participate in this matter.

NIX, C.J., files a concurring statement.

PAPADAKOS, J., dissents.

NIX, Chief Justice.

I concur in the result reached by the majority of this Court. I write separately to note that this Court in its supervisory role over the conduct of judicial officers, may substitute its own judgment for that exercised by the Judicial Inquiry and Review Board when choosing the appropriate punishment for a judicial officer’s dereliction of duty. In view of the offense herein, attempted tax evasion, and of the time already served under suspension, see In the Matter of Dalessandro, No. 742 Disc. Dkt. 2 (March 15,1990), I do not find it inappropriate for the Judicial Inquiry and Review Board to dismiss the charges against petitioner in light of its reasoning that the sanction they would have recommended would be no more than the two and one-half year suspension which petitioner has already served.