Court Opinion

ID: 9731262
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 15:40:35.944467+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:16.647754
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*211FLAHERTY, Justice,
concurring.
I concur in the result reached by the majority, namely removal of Respondent from judicial office, but write separately in the belief that Respondent’s convictions were for “misbehavior in office,” which, pursuant to Art. 5, § 18(l) of the Pennsylvania Constitution, requires automatic forfeiture of judicial office. For the reasons stated in my dissenting opinion in In re Joseph P. Braig, 527 Pa. 248, 590 A.2d 284 (1991), convictions such as the present ones, to wit, for hindering apprehension or prosecution and obstructing administration of law or other governmental function, should result in automatic forfeiture of judicial office.