Judge Mark Tranquilli of Pittsburgh, PA; bigoted loser

The state of Pennsylvania presented Mark J. Tranquilli with a law license in 1992 after he graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

FYI: Alan has had his significant snout firmly implanted in the public trough for the past forty-five (45) years. Apparently, no self-respecting law firm in the greater Philadelphia area was about to offer him a good paying job.

The Judicial Conduct Board found Judge Tranquilli guilty of engaging in the following misconduct

• Failed to act in a manner promoting public confidence in the judiciary
• Failed to perform his judicial duties, including administrative duties, without bias or prejudice
• Engaged in harassment of parties appearing before him based on their race or gender
• Made improper commentary regarding a defendant’s family situation
• Failed to be patient, dignified, and courteous to litigants, jurors, witnesses, lawyers, court staff, court officials, and others
• Failed to comply with the law

While serving an assignment in family court, Judge Tranquilli conducted a custody conciliation in the matter of Jayson Patterson and Cara Patterson, both of whom were black. At various points during the conciliation hearing, Judge Tranquilli stated the following or words to that effect.

• Said he didn’t care about the Pattersons’ children
• Said his only concern was his own three children
• Said he was merely passing time in the family division until his eventual reassignment to the criminal divisions
• Said he wasn’t the “brain surgeon” that he believed that “all the other family division judges think they are”
• Said he was more of a “slice and dice” guy than a “brain surgeon”
• Said that he was a “butcher”
• Said he would “split the Pattersons’ baby in half like Solomon and sleep like a baby that night”

When discussing the issue of communication between the parties, Tranquilli affected an accent and dialect described as “Ebonics.” He then went on to say to the Pattersons:

“And when I say communication, I don’t mean ‘and

den da bitch done dis, and den da bitch done dat.”

At the conclusion of a jury trial involving Lamar Rice and the jury’s verdict of not guilty of possession of a controlled substance (Tranquille visibly upset at the not guilty verdict), Judge Tranquilli made the following comments about various jurors in the presence of Assistant District Attorney Thaddeus Dutkowski and defense counsel Joseph Otte.

• Juror # 4: Stated to ADA Dutkowski “You weren’t out of strikes when you decided to put Aunt Jemima on the jury.”
• Expressed that ADA Dutkowski “knew darn well that when she [Juror #4] goes home to her baby daddy, he’s probably slinging heroin too.”
• Juror # 11: Asked ADA Dutkowski what he was thinking “putting a knucklehead, Juror #11 on the jury?”

During sentencing hearings involved a variety of defendants, Judge Tranquilli made the following statements to the defendants.  

“So, if you don’t show up in 30 days, you have violated my probation, and I’m going to case you down amongst the Sodomites, all right, in state prison. All right?”

All that remains now is to see what if any punishment is meted out to Bruce the Perv by the enablers for Judicial Misfits sitting on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

As we speak (ca. August 2020), Judge Morrow continues to sit as an Alleghany County Common Pleas Judge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.