The state’s Judicial Conduct Board has cleared a former Saucon Valley district judge of most of the charges he faced as a result of a misconduct investigation.
Former Northampton County District Judge David Tidd (FILE PHOTO)
David W. Tidd was exonerated of all but a charge of retaliation in a 32-page ruling handed down by the board Friday.
The entire ruling can be read online, where it was uploaded as part of a post by Northampton County political blogger Bernie O’Hare.
The panel judges who heard the case concluded that allegations of misconduct by Tidd’s staff and others were not credible, and stated in the conclusion put forward by Judge David Barton that “the board…failed to prove (the majority of the) charges by clear and convincing evidence.”
Tidd resigned from his district judgeship in February 2016, then rescinded that resignation, and finally resigned for good in July 2016.
The following month he was charged with misconduct in a 96-page complaint that alleged–among other things–that he ran a “fast food court” in Lower Saucon Township and acquired a reputation as a “drive-thru judge.”
The case was heard earlier this year in Harrisburg and Philadelphia.
Since he stepped down as district judge for Hellertown and Lower Saucon Township, Tidd, 48, has relocated his law practice from Hellertown to Fleetwood, Berks County.
