The state Supreme Court has disbarred a Philadelphia attorney who was found to have commingled client funds with his own money — in one instance, spending away a Philadelphia municipal court judge’s real estate deposit instead of keeping the money in escrow.

Melvin T. Sharpe Jr. pleaded his case to the Supreme Court last month following a Pennsylvania Disciplinary Board report finding 14 violations of the attorney Rules of Professional Conduct.

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