Former Penn professor Tracy McIntosh remains on probation as he awaits a superior court decision on whether he will face harsher penalties for his sexual assault conviction.
McIntosh was sentenced in March 2005 to 11 to 23 months of house arrest after being charged with sexually assaulting the 23-year-old niece of a close friend when she visited him on campus. However, he ultimately served a total of six months of house arrest.
The Philadelphia District Attorney's Office has appealed McIntosh's sentence, which was more lenient than the four to six years of jail time sentencing guidelines dictate.
Judge Rayford Means said at the time that jail time would have hindered McIntosh's ground-breaking neurosurgery research.
Assistant District Attorney Chris Mallios said that there is "no timeline" for when a decision on the appeal will be made.
After he pled no contest to the charges in 2004, the University asked McIntosh to resign his post and hasn't maintained contact with him.
