Making a “veiled threat” to a defendant’s attorney and filling an opinion with “gratuitous” and “denigrating comments” was just some of the conduct that the Pennsylvania Superior Court pointed to in removing an Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas judge from a criminal case that the judge allegedly failed to properly handle.

The Superior Court said Allegheny County Judge Donna Jo McDaniel failed to follow the appellate court’s instructions when the case was initially remanded in 2016, and instead violated the defendant’s constitutional rights by failing to properly re-sentence him.