Commonwealth v. Gentile

SAYLOR, Judge.

This is a direct appeal from the judgment of sentence of the Court of Common Pleas of Chester County for obstructing the administration of law or other governmental functions, 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 5101. We affirm.

We adopt the trial court’s summary of the facts, as follows:

On August 28, 1990, a speeding citation was issued to one Andrew Kramer. Lester Thomas, the chief of the Parkesburg Borough Police, was subsequently approached by [Appellant,] District Justice Gentile about the ticket. [Appellant] asked “if there was anything we could do about the citation” in light of the fact that…