Thomas v. State

SCHOONOVER, Judge.

The appellant, Robert Allen Thomas, appeals the denial of his petition to have his criminal record sealed. We reverse.

The appellant, an attorney licensed to practice law in the state of Pennsylvania, was charged with uttering a forged instrument after he transferred funds into his escrow account from an account on which he was a signatory. The account from which the funds were transferred contained funds awarded to appellant’s clients in a Florida lawsuit. The trial court, however, had ordered that the funds were not to be distributed without the court’s permission.…