COM. v. McCAGUE


830 A.2d 1089 (2003)

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania v. Richard J. McCAGUE. Appeal of Calvin Lightfoot, Warden of the Allegheny County Jail.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided August 25, 2003.

As Amended September 10, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles P. McCullough, Dennis R. Biondo and Kathryn M. Wakefield, Pittsburgh, for appellant.

Patrick J. Thomassey, Monroeville, for appellee.

BEFORE: LEADBETTER, Judge, SIMPSON, Judge, and FLAHERTY, Senior Judge.


FLAHERTY, Senior Judge.

Calvin Lightfoot, the Warden (Warden) of the Allegheny County Jail (Jail), appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Criminal Division, which granted attorney Richard McCague's (McCague) Motion for Special Relief mandating that Jail officials allow him access to his private criminal client inmates at the Jail. We vacate and remand.

On June 16, 2002, McCague, an attorney practicing criminal law in Allegheny...

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