Vega-Torres Judicial Conduct Complaint

After being illegally jailed by a magisterial district judge, the defendant was able to obtain release through a writ of habeas corpus from a common pleas court. In the judicial ethics complaint that followed - which resulted in the judge being sanctioned - the defendant set forth the nine separate ways in which the judge violated the law in his case, including both the illegal incarceration and over-billing him court costs.