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A Philadelphia Family Court judge who was arrested for assaulting his wife and daughter<\/a> earlier this year is no longer suspended after prosecutors withdrew all charges against him last week<\/a>. <\/p>\n The Pennsylvania Court of Discipline ended Michael Fanning\u2019s suspension without pay Thursday because the only reason for it was the criminal charges against him. <\/p>\n \u201cWith no charges and no other reason cited for the suspension of Judge Fanning, no reason exists for that suspension to continue,\u201d the order said<\/a>. <\/p>\n Fanning, 60, will be assigned administrative duty and will not hear cases until the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas leadership can decide his future assignment, said court spokesperson Martin O\u2019Rourke.<\/p>\n His request to end the stay did not mention backpay. <\/p>\n The administrative office of Pennsylvania courts did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether Fanning would receive back pay for the four months he was suspended. <\/p>\n Fortunato Perri Jr., Fanning\u2019s attorney, declined to comment. <\/p>\n Fanning was charged with aggravated assault, strangulation, and related crimes <\/a>in March after prosecutors said he repeatedly punched his wife in the face, choked her, and dragged his 30-year-old daughter to the ground by her hair, causing her to cut her face, during a fight at their East Torresdale<\/a> home.<\/p>\n Assistant District Attorney Brian Collins said last week that the two women were evaluated by medics and did not suffer injuries.<\/p>\n The Philadelphia District Attorney\u2019s Office withdrew the charges against the judge last week<\/a> after Fanning\u2019s wife and daughter did not want to proceed. <\/p>\n Attorneys for Fanning also provided the district attorney\u2019s office with \u201cextensive mitigation\u201d records, prosecutors told the court without describing their content. <\/p>\n Fanning\u2019s wife said in a March hearing that the judge had voluntarily entered a 30-day inpatient recovery program to treat his excessive alcohol use, an issue the family had worked to address in the past.<\/p>\n Fanning was appointed to the Common Pleas Court bench in 2014 by then-Gov. Tom Corbett<\/a>. He won a 10-year term in the 2015 election<\/a>, and was retained for another term in November<\/a>. He has been serving as a Family Court judge throughout his tenure.<\/p>\n Staff writer Ellie Rushing contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min A Philadelphia Family Court judge who was arrested for assaulting his wife and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[107550,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-251580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-michael-fanning-judge-family-court-arrest-domestic-violence","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}