We have frequently criticized Philadelphia’s George Soros-sponsored, criminal-loving and police-hating District Attorney, Larry Krasner, a former criminal defense attorney, but hey, this is just an evil, reich-wing source, so our criticisms can be simply written off as just more evil, conservative hate, right?
But what if some of that criticism comes from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which is controlled by Democrats?
Pa. Supreme Court blasts DA Larry Krasner’s office, saying it misled judges in seeking to vacate old murder convictions
In a forceful and scolding opinion, the state’s high court said Krasner’s office “violated its duty of candor” and ruled the state attorney general’s office must now review cases it seeks to overturn.
by Ellie Rushing and Jillian Kramer | Tuesday, June 16, 2026 | 5:14 PM EDT | Updated: 7:43 PM EDT
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.
In the opinion released Tuesday, 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.
The decision amounted to one of the most scathing rebukes yet of Krasner’s efforts to revisit decades-old convictions, and arrives amid intensifying scrutiny of the office’s Conviction Integrity Unit and appeals division, whose handling of post-conviction cases has drawn criticism from judges in both state and federal court.
Just last week, Krasner’s office reversed course in a separate murder case, writing in a federal court filing that one of its prosecutors had made “material misstatements” and submitted “legally erroneous” statements when seeking to overturn a man’s murder conviction. The office sought to withdraw its recommendation to grant the defendant a new trial.
Amusingly enough, Mr Krasner has said that his office needs $5.6 million more from the city, supposedly to “bolster shootings investigations, domestic violence prosecutions, and victim services,” something which could be saved if his office and he weren’t trying to set free already convicted criminals. And at almost the same time, the chief of the Defenders Association, Keisha Hudson, said that her group needed more money, to defend the accused suspects that the chief prosecutor is not really prosecuting.
And in December, a panel of federal judges voted to disbar a supervisor in the office’s appellate unit, saying he “lied repeatedly” while seeking to overturn the death sentence of a man who killed a couple inside their East Mount Airy home, then left their infant daughter inside to die.
By giving the state attorney general authority to intervene when Philadelphia prosecutors decline to defend a conviction, the high court added a new layer of oversight to the state’s largest prosecutor’s office — a rare step that reshapes who controls post-conviction litigation in Pennsylvania.
Krasner, in a video statement shared late Tuesday, said the high court’s ruling “undermines the value of a vote in Philadelphia as compared to every other county.”
Perhaps, just perhaps, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office wouldn’t need “a new layer of oversight” if Mr Krasner and his minions had been doing their jobs!
But, then again, I suppose that they have been doing the jobs that the idiots good people of Philadelphia want them to do: to keep criminals out of jail as much as possible.
Still, while Mr Krasner wants to reduce sentences for real criminals, he wants others to serve more time. When former Philadelphia Police Officer Eric Ruch, Jr, was tried, convicted, and sentenced for killing an unarmed suspect following a police chase, Mr Krasner filed an appeal to reconsider the 11½-to-23 month sentence as too lenient. Instead Mr Ruch was released after nine months, for a conviction that should never have occurred in the first place. Mr Krasner previously made a fool of himself with his spittle-flecked declaration that he would seek to find state charges against the January 6th Capitol kerfufflers who were pardoned by President Trump, despite the fact that the vast majority had already served their sentences. And, of course, he threatened any ICE Agents who worked in Philadelphia with prosecution on even the slightest of pretexts.
Remember how our good friends on the left kept telling us that “no one is above the law”, when they were trying anything and everything they could to imprison and disqualify then-former President Trump? The ‘progressives’ don’t seem to want the law to apply to actual criminals, to men already convicted and behind bars, and to illegal immigrants. Mr Krasner tries to take it a step farther, and lock up law enforcement officers, while trying to spring real thugs.
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