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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | William J. "Jay" Ober |
| Address | Mount Pleasant Township
Greensburg, Pennsylvania , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
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(86 years)
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Modifed | Scott³
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| Info | Ober graduated from Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle in 1964, then served a six-month preceptorship with Shaw.
In 1989, he represented several farmers in a successful appeal of a $7.5 million county property tax increase. Commissioners ultimately were forced to refund it.
On the bench, he presided over the 2003 trial of Ligonier podiatrist Karl Long, who was convicted of third-degree murder for killing his wife and is serving a 5- to 10-year sentence.
During that case, Ober made news after refusing to release the names of jurors who served on the trial. After a four-year battle, the state Supreme Court issued a 5-0 decision in 2007 that said the public had a constitutional right to learn the names of jurors.
Ober first ran for judge as a Democrat in 1981 and lost. A decade later, he lost again, this time as a Republican. But in 1997, Ober was able to secure the most votes out of all the judicial candidates, even as Democrats dominated in voter registration.
Then-Gov. Tom Ridge nominated him to fill Mihalich's vacancy. The Senate confirmed the appointment on June 12, 1997.
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