Locatelli has never been disciplined by the high court, but was issued a cautionary letter by the commission in 2004 after pornographic e-mails were found on his city-owned computer at the court. Such letters are normally confidential, but Locatelli made his public when he applied for a district judgeship last year.

Locatelli was the author, along with Miller-Byrnes, of the letter to the Sun-News complaining about city police and prosecutors.

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