HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — This judge's rulings, for better orworse, are poetic justice because they're in verse.

A state Supreme Court justice known for opinions written inrhyme has done it again, producing six pages of verse Thursday inthe case of whether the maker of a forged check also had committedinsurance fraud.

Justice J. Michael Eakin, writing for a 4-2 majority, concludedin six-line stanzas that a man's attempt to deposit a forged checkappearing to be from State Farm didn't constitute insurancefraud.

"Sentenced on the other crimes, he surely won't go free, but wefind he can't be guilty of this final felony," Eakin wrote."Convictions for the forgery and theft are approbated — thesentence for insurance fraud, however, is vacated. The case must beremanded for resentencing, we find, so the trial judge may imposethe result he originally had in mind."

A dissenting three-page opinion by Justice Thomas G. Saylordidn't rhyme.

Eakin was first elected to the high court in 2001 after earninga reputation as the "rhyming judge" by issuing some opinionsentirely in verse while sitting on an intermediate state appellatecourt in the late 1990s. Two former state Supreme Court justices,Stephen A. Zappala and the late Ralph J. Cappy, had expressedconcern in the past that the practice could reflect poorly on thecourt.

The 63-year-old Eakin was re-elected in November to anadditional 10-year term, although under the state constitution,justices must retire on the last day of the calendar year in whichthey turn 70, which for Eakin will be in 2018.