JUDGE WON'T RECONSIDER DISTRICT JUSTICE'S TERM

PITTSBURGH - A judge who sentenced a former magistrate accused of
tipping off her drug dealer to a police raid to two years of
rehabilitation and no jail time has refused to reconsider his decision.

The state attorney general's office had asked Allegheny County Judge
Robert E. Coville Sr. to reconsider the sentence he gave former
District Justice Gigi Sullivan last month.

The attorney general said Sullivan, 40, should have received jail
time.

The judge said Thursday he considered the motion and denied
it.

"They did it because it made good press," Coville told the
Tribune-Review of Pittsburgh for a story in yesterday's editions.

The judge was Sullivan's boss as Allegheny County district attorney
when she worked as an assistant in the office in the early 1980s.

The attorney general's office never suggested that Colville be removed
from the case.

Under Colville's sentence, Sullivan must spend 30 days at a drug
rehabilitation facility, followed by 23 months of supervised
probation. Five years of parole will follow, including regular drug
tests.

Sullivan admitted to dealing drugs, obstructing justice and operating
a corrupt organization from her office in the small town of Springdale
from 1996 to 1998. Authorities said her supplier was a used-car dealer
who also pleaded guilty to drug charges after seeking favors with free
cocaine and heroin.

Once, Sullivan dialed her dealer to warn of imminent "dinner guests,"
their code for a raid, prosecutors said.