The state Supreme Court has denied the extraordinary jurisdiction petition of a Western Pennsylvania attorney who has, for more than a year, accused a Washington County judge of tampering with the transcripts of the underlying murder trial he defended.
The high court’s decision, a one-page order late last month, means attorney Noah Geary will have to argue to the state Superior Court that Washington County Common Pleas Court President Judge Debbie O’Dell-Seneca ordered her court stenographer, Toni DiNardo, to alter trial transcripts in his murder case. The case was tried in 2008 and Geary represents convicted triggerman Gerald Szakal, who is appealing charges of second-degree murder.
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