Wild stuff. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner in 🥵 water and now needs the PA AG’s office to review all attempts to overturn a murder conviction.
“In a forceful and scolding opinion, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that District Attorney Larry Krasner’s office misled the courts, “violated its duty of candor,” and submitted false statements when asking a judge to vacate a 2004 murder conviction.
Justice Kevin Dougherty wrote that prosecutors’ pattern of misleading judges in seeking to overturn murder convictions is so troubling and recurrent that, going forward, before Krasner’s office seeks such relief, judges must notify the state attorney general’s office and allow it to review the case.”
DA Krasner’s Office was playing fast and loose when it came to trying to overturn murder convictions… and then not doing anything after overturning them.
Time and again it has come out that his DAOs lied to the court, hid evidence, or didn’t communicate with the families of the victims.
This isn’t political. The PA Supreme Court is 5-2 Democrat. This is about due process and justice.
Crazy that it has been able to go on for this long without somebody stepping in…
There has been 115 cases…
“The attorney general’s office had filed an amicus brief in support of the families, arguing that, since 2018, Krasner’s office had conceded relief to the defendants in 115 cases in which there was no “adversarial testing” of the case.
Attorney General David Sunday, a Republican, said in a statement Tuesday that his office is grateful to serve “as a check on this process for the citizens of Philadelphia and ensure that the interests of victims’ families are represented.”
When an investigation reveals that a defendant was wrongfully convicted, his office said, prosecutors have a duty to remedy the situation — through the established court processes.
“As the Court noted,” his office said, “this case is about the failure of the process in Philadelphia, both as to this defendant and many others.””
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