In Re: Dawn Segal, Judge

OPINION

CHIEF JUSTICE SAYLOR

This is a direct appeal in a judicial discipline case that resulted in Appellant’s removal from her office as, a municipal court judge in Philadelphia. The matter was, consolidated, for purposes of limited oral argument only, with In re Roca, — Pa. -, 173 A.3d 1176, 2017 WL 5619909 (2017), regarding the legal question of whether the Court of Judicial Discipline must apply the doctrine of stare decisis when sanctioning a jurist.

I. Background

In 2014, amidst a federal investigation encompassing electronic surveillance of telephone conversations in which she…