Law360, Philadelphia (November 16, 2016, 2:38 PM EST) -- A disgraced former Pennsylvania state judge was found liable on Tuesday for violations of ethics rules based on both her perjury conviction in a ticket-fixing scandal in the Philadelphia Traffic Court and a separate guilty plea on charges that she accepted a bribe from a confidential informant. The state’s Court of Judicial Discipline found that Thomasine Tynes, the former president judge of the now-defunct traffic court, had triggered a provision of the Pennsylvania Constitution subjecting her to discipline as a result of her convictions and that her conduct had brought her office into disrepute. The CJD did not substantively comment on...

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