A former magisterial district judge from Bradford County has been fined $5,000 by the Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline for having sex with and sending explicit texts to the girlfriend of a defendant in his drug and alcohol treatment court.

The court imposed the fine along with a “severe reprimand” against former MDJ Michael G. Shaw after finding ethical violations in “Shaw’s conduct in sending sexually oriented text messages, engaging in sexual relations with the girlfriend of a defendant appearing before him in treatment court, and allowing the attorney then representing him in this ethics matter to represent litigants before him without disclosing that representation to opposing counsel or parties,” Judge Jeffrey Minehart wrote in the CJD’s April 23 opinion.

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