IN RE ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 1-MD-2003


936 A.2d 1 (2007)

In re ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 1-MD-2003 Appeal of Honorable James P. Troutman, Clerk of Courts of the Court of Common Pleas of Berks County The Honorable James P. Troutman, Clerk of Courts of Berks County, Petitioner, v. Court of Common Pleas of Berks County, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided November 20, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daryl F. Moyer, Esq., Bear Antanavage & Moyer, Hamburg, for James P. Troutman.

Christopher D. Carusone, Esq., Office of the Attorney General, Amy Zapp, Esq., Richard A. Sheetz, Jr., Esq., Thomas W. Corbett, Jr., Esq., PA Office of Attorney General, for Attorney General's Office.

David R. Eshelman, Esq., Eshelman & Shucker, Reading, for All unrepresented ARD defendants.

David M. Donaldson, Esq., Howard M. Holmes, Esq., Philadelphia, for Berks County Court of Common Pleas.

David Crowley, Esq., Bellefonte, for amicus curiae Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

BEFORE: CAPPY, C.J., and CASTILLE, SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, and BALDWIN, JJ.


OPINION

Chief Justice CAPPY.

This appeal stems from the exceptions of the Honorable James P. Troutman, Clerk of Courts of the Court of Common Pleas of Berks County ("Appellant" or "Troutman") to an administrative order entered in that court directing him to seal certain records in his custody. For the following reasons, we hold that the Court of Common Pleas of Berks County possessed original jurisdiction to entertain Troutman's exceptions, and the...

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