
PITTSBURGH (AP) – A Greene County judge has been accused of judicial misconduct by the Pennsylvania Judicial Conduct Board for the alleged mishandling of criminal cases. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that the board filed a 21-count complaint Thursday against President Judge Farley Toothman. The complaint alleges that in one incident Toothman retaliated against a woman who confronted his law clerk for alleged theft from a Sunoco gas station. That woman was incarcerated for 25 days on contempt charges for allegedly violating a payment plan in connection to an unrelated case. Toothman could not be immediately reached to comment on the charges. But he told the Observer-Reporter newspaper Thursday that the complaint was regrettable.