The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has affirmed a trial court decision upholding the appointment of Marion O’Malley as district attorney of Susquehanna County and rejecting a former county prosecutor‘s attempt to assume the role.

Last April, Centre County Court of Common Pleas Senior Judge David E. Grine dismissed attorney William Urbanski’s lawsuit seeking to supplant O’Malley as district attorney, in a struggle over who should replace the county’s previous elected top prosecutor, Robert Klein, who died in late 2017. The trial court found Urbanski, who had been first assistant under Klein, failed to meet the law’s residency requirement before he took the oath of office at the beginning of the year.

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