Jim and Carrie Carroll at Carroll and Carroll, P.C. represent the injured people of Pennsylvania and New York in Bradford, Sullivan, Tioga, Susquehanna, and Chemung counties in personal injury, premises liability, slip and fall, automobile accident and workers’ compensation cases Jim and Carrie Carroll at Carroll and Carroll, P.C. represent the injured people of Pennsylvania and New York in Bradford, Sullivan, Tioga, Susquehanna, and Chemung counties in personal injury, premises liability, slip and fall, automobile accident and workers’ compensation cases

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No conflict of interest between Bradford County, Pennsylvania's new Judge and new District Attorney, despite them cousins

From the Towanda Daily Review:

"Bradford County Court Judge Maureen Beirne can preside over criminal cases that are prosecuted by her first cousin, Bradford County District Attorney Daniel Barrett, according to an opinion issued recently by the president judge of the Bradford County Court of Common Pleas.  The Pennsylvania Code of Judicial Conduct permits a judge to preside over a case in which the judge’s cousin is acting as an attorney, Jeffrey A. Smith, president judge of the Bradford County Court of Common Pleas, wrote in his opinion, which was filed Friday in the Bradford County Prothonotary’s Office."

I don't think they're very close anyway, despite being first cousins.  Actually, I'm distantly related to Judge Beirne, a fact that I'm going to remind her about every time I'm in front of her!