Philadelphia’s pro-criminal district attorney abuses his power to free criminals

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Philadelphia’s pro-criminal district attorney has so abused his position that he has been reprimanded by the Democratic-controlled Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which has appointed the state’s Republican attorney general as his new personal babysitter.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner (D) attempted to grant a new trial to convicted murderer Lavar Brown, but the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the attempt, saying that his office’s concession of needing a new trial was “not reliable.”

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