Good day all. I seem to be getting into the habit of somewhat clickbaity subject headings. However, this is somewhat accurate. The Pennsylvanian Supreme Court has just slammed the Philadelphia District Attorney, Larry Krasner, over his actions as DA.
I’ve written about the Philadelphia Soros District Attorney, Larry Kranser, before. He is dead set against doing his job, which is to put criminals in prison if they happen to be from a certain demographic. Apparently, this was brought to the attentions of the state Supreme Court and they said basically, Krasner can’t be trusted. Here are the details from Fox News:
A divided Pennsylvania Supreme Court, including two Democrat justices, ordered Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s office to face new outside scrutiny over its post-conviction concessions after the state’s high court found the office’s handling of one convicted murderer’s case was unreliable and said similar problems extended beyond just that single case.
Justice Kevin Dougherty, a Democrat, wrote the 4-3 opinion in the case of Levar Brown, a Philadelphia man whose murder convictions became the centerpiece of a broader legal fight over Krasner’s Conviction Integrity Unit and the office’s willingness to concede relief in serious criminal cases. Dougherty was joined by Justice Daniel McCaffery, another Democrat judge on the state’s Supreme Court, and two other Republican judges. The dissenters were all Democrats.
So we have two Democrats who still have a grasp on reality? Good. I do want to know what was going through, or more likely bouncing around, the empty skulls of the other Democrats who opposed this action. In any case, this was just the beginning.
The 4-3 decision reversed a Philadelphia post-conviction order granting Brown a new trial after Krasner’s office conceded his conviction should not stand and a Philadelphia judge approved the request. It also ordered that, going forward, Philadelphia judges handling post-conviction challenges must notify the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General and allow the office to intervene before granting relief in any case where Krasner’s office concedes that a conviction should be overturned.
Ordering Krasner to notify the AG’s office when he wants to go soft on a criminal is major judicial punch in the face. The court is saying, publicly, that Larry Krasner can’t be trusted to uphold the law. Now DA’s have always had some discretion when it comes to prosecutions, or reviewing cases where new evidence has been found. It appears that wasn’t what Krasner was doing. Still, it could have gone a lot harder on him.
The ruling stops short of handing control of the cases to the state attorney general, but it creates a new court-ordered check on Krasner’s office in future post-conviction matters.
“The prosecutor does not decide whether a defendant is entitled to relief under the Post Conviction Relief Act,” Dougherty wrote for the majority, emphasizing that a judge must independently determine whether a conviction should be overturned even when prosecutors agree with the defense.
The majority concluded that Krasner’s office’s concession in Brown’s case “was not reliable,” finding that Krasner’s office conceded relief when it was not warranted by the existing record, withheld material evidence from the court, submitted a false stipulation of fact, misstated facts in its pleadings, failed to conduct a reasonable investigation and opposed a required evidentiary hearing.
Excuse me, but this sounds like serious misconduct by Krasner and his office. This appears, to my uneducated eye, even worse then the garbage Fatass Fani Wallis was pulling in Fulton County in her attempts to railroad President Trump and others into prison. If this is the case, shouldn’t “Let them go” Larry be removed from his position? Disbarred? You know, suffer real repercussions?
Since 2018, the Philadelphia DA’s office has conceded relief “well over 100 times,” mostly in murder cases, according to the opinion. The court also said there are apparently more than 1,000 cases still waiting to be reviewed by the office’s Conviction Integrity Unit.
The case was brought to the high court by family members of murder victims Michael Richardson and Robert Crawford. Brown was convicted by a Philadelphia jury in the 2004 murder of Richardson and convicted by another Philadelphia jury in the 2005 murder of Crawford, according to the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office.
Apparently, Krasner will always say that a murderer should have relief if he is of a certain skin tone. It was the family who brought this to the Supreme Court’s attention. Frankly, it should have been the Attorney General that called out Krasner.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday praised the ruling, saying his office will now be able to serve as a check on the process for Philadelphia residents and victims’ families.
“As prosecutors, our role is to advocate for victims of crime, for public safety, and for justice,” Sunday said in a statement. “Centuries of experience teach that the best way to achieve that justice is through the adversarial process, with vigorous representation for both sides.”
The problem with Krasner is that he thinks he’s part of the defense team. Apparently, the Democrats who didn’t rule to hammer this walking diaper stain, also think that defending criminals is what the prosecutors should be doing.
In dissent, Justice David Wecht warned that the majority was injecting the attorney general into local post-conviction proceedings and interfering with the discretion of Philadelphia’s elected prosecutor.
But the majority rejected that argument, saying the attorney general’s role would not override the DA’s discretion and would instead give courts the benefit of an adversarial process before convictions are overturned.
The ruling sends Brown’s case back to the Pennsylvania post-conviction court for further proceedings and sets a new process for future cases where Krasner’s office seeks to concede relief.
Apparently, Krasner’s office was looking at something like 1000 convicted murderers. With any luck, this nonsense has been shut down. I still believe that he must be removed from his office. He is absolutely unfit for his position. He has been repeatedly threatening Federal agents for doing their jobs and rounding up illegal aliens. I think he should consider a new career in the fast food industry.
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