Employees always risk disciplinary action if they sleep on the job, but if you are a magisterial district judge, you might want to think twice before using your judicial robe as a pillow.
Former Magisterial District Judge David W. Tidd of Northampton County was charged by the Judicial Conduct Board recently in connection with a number of incidents of allegedly inappropriate behavior while on the bench. Among other things, the JCB’s complaint alleged that Tidd often yelled and cursed at his clerks, failed to properly recuse from cases he or his law partner were involved with as attorneys, conducted court without wearing his robe, and once rolled up his robe to use it as a pillow while he slept on his office floor.
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