Jury set for fourth day of Melvin deliberations
Jury set for fourth day of Melvin deliberations
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A western Pennsylvania jury is set to return for a fourth day of deliberations today in the campaign corruption trial of suspended state Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin and her aide and sister, Janine Orie.
The sisters are charged with misusing Melvin’s former Superior Court staff to help her campaign for the state’s highest court in 2003 and 2009. Janine Orie was an aide to the judge then and also allegedly helped Melvin direct the political work by her staff as well as the state-funded staff of a third sister, then-state Sen. Jane Orie, too.
The sisters deny wrongdoing.
The jury was expected to return to the Allegheny County Courthouse about 9 a.m. today.