Rapist Retaliated Against Judges Who Wouldn't Let Him Have Porn: Dauphin DA

Gregory Dunbar, 65, a Camp Hill native and a current inmate of State Correctional Institution Mahanoy in Schuylkill County, was convicted of nine counts of retaliation against a judicial official and one count of barratry in less than an hour on Tuesday, Sept. 24, the DA detailed in the release. 

Dunbar is in SCI Mahony serving a sentence of 20 to 40 years for attempted murder and multiple counts of rape, and refused transport for the trial, verdict, or sentencing, Chardo explained. 

While in prison in July 2018, Dunbar filed a lawsuit stating that the Department of Corrections prohibited him from accessing sexually explicit material in his prison cell, and he claimed this violated his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution. "In July 2019, the Commonwealth Court dismissed Dunbar’s lawsuit and ruled that the regulations regarding sexually explicit material issued by the Department of Corrections were 'reasonably related to legitimate penological interests,'" as written in the release. 

The judgment on the case did not include the name of the Judges who reviewed the suit, yet in Sept. 2019, Dunbar began to file private criminal complaints with the Dauphin County DA's Office against Commonwealth Court Judges Leavitt, Jubelirer, Simpson, Brobson, McCullough, Covey, Wojcik, Cannon, and Ceisler.

Dunbar charged "that by their actions they had tampered with public records, obstructed the administration of law and, engaged in official oppression," the DA wrote, noting "as part of the private criminal complaints, Dunbar sought to have each of the judges removed from office after conviction."

The DA denied the complaints and charged Dunbar with retaliating against each of the Commonwealth Court judges and "using the legal system to harass other persons with frivolous lawsuits," as explained in the release. 

Chief Deputy District Jack Canavan emphasized during the trial that Dunbar was never charged criminally for demanding sexually explicit pornography in his prison cell, but instead of appealing the court decision, he "sought to punish the nine judges for carrying out their judicial duties."

Dunbar could have been released from prison in April 2025 after completing his sentence for the attempted murder and rapes he committed in Bucks and Philadelphia counties.

Instead, for the retaliation, Judge Curcillo sentenced Dunbar to serve another 18 to 36 years in state prison. 

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