Commonwealth v. Zullinger

DEL SOLE, Judge.

Appellant Todd Zullinger was convicted before a District Justice of summary harassment. 18 Pa.C.S. § 2709(a)(3). He appealed to the Court of Common Pleas and, following a hearing de novo, was again convicted. This appeal followed. We reverse the conviction and vacate the judgment of sentence.

The record reveals that Appellant appeared in the office of District Justice Ronald E. Klair to arrange payments on a traffic citation which Appellant’s brother had received. He was wearing a T-shirt “with the words fuck you acrossed [sic] the front — near the waist, and fuck you appeared…