He attained his position on the bench in 2010, replacing his sister, who was drummed out of office after a corruption scandal of her own. In his six years on the bench, he oversaw minor criminal proceedings and preliminary hearings for defendants facing trial — including early stages of the case against Lee Kaplan, a Bucks County man convicted in 2017 of sexually abusing six sisters who had been “gifted” to him by an Amish couple.