Commonwealth v. Melvin

OPINION BY

DONOHUE, J.:

Appellant, Joan Orie Melvin (“Orie Melvin”), filed an Application for Stay of Criminal Sentence Requiring Appellant to Write Letters of Apology Pending Disposition of this Direct Appeal (hereinafter, the “Application for Stay”), in which she contends that the portion of her criminal sentence requiring her to write apology letters to the victims of her crimes violates her right against self-incrimination pursuant to the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and Article 1, Section 9 of the Pennsylvania Constitution. For the reasons that follow,…