PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 For a second time, a federal judge is referring Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner for a criminal investigation after questionable conduct was alleged by attorneys within the DA\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
Judge Paul Diamond\u2019s reiteration for an investigation into Krasner comes after the filing of several documents and a number of evidentiary hearings tied to a murder conviction appeal.<\/p>\n
Diamond said he would not recuse himself from overseeing the murder conviction appeal and reiterated that DA Larry Krasner should be criminally investigated, writing in a new opinion \u201cthat the District Attorney chose not to testify but sought to \u2018make his case\u2019 with an unsworn declaration \u2014 the credibility of which I am unable to assess \u2014 makes that investigation even more necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the judge ruled against Krasner last month, the DA filed a number of motions and a declaration criticizing the judge and how he \u201cinterpreted testimony\u201d given under oath by both current and former assistant DAs.<\/p>\n
The judge said Krasner\u2019s filing seemed \u201cintended to persuade the media, not the Court.\u201d<\/p>\n
The recent court saga stems from a flawed court document siding with a convicted murderer in his attempt at an appeal.<\/p>\n
In the fallout, several attorneys resigned after they said they believed they were being threatened or blamed for the controversy. <\/p>\n
The judge also wrote that \u201cthere are few attorney transgressions more serious than lying to the Court.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 For a second time, a federal judge is referring Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8446,55076,69,71,70,91374],"class_list":["post-307830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-da-larry-krasner","tag-federal-judge","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-district-attorney-s-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}