“It’s important to have a broad grasp and understanding of the criminal justice system as a whole”, he said.
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Ms. Kane said she wants to release the emails, but Judge Carpenter’s order precluded her from doing so.
But Ardo says there remain concerns about the perception of retaliation, along with privacy and contractual issues.
In charging Kane earlier this month, prosecutors said she had conspired with Peifer and Patrick Reese, the head of her security detail, to spy illegally on her employees. In that case, she maintained the emails were not a “record” subject to the Right to Know law. “Some of the people who may have either received or sent the emails are not public figures and may not have worked for the office”, he said.
“If she were to release some of the emails, it may be perceived as retribution or seeking to embarrass somebody”. “We deserve an Attorney General all of Pennsylvania can count on”.
Kane is expected to be in Montgomery County on Monday for a preliminary hearing.
Longtime political activist Gene Stilp is calling for some members of a legal disciplinary body to recuse themselves from action related to the state’s embattled attorney general.
A Wayne County judge says he imposed the stiff sentence partly because Michael Ware lied to investigators about giving his 15-year-old daughter the keys, allowing her to shoulder all the blame for the crash that killed three of her friends in the Poconos last August. We expect that appropriate public disclosure will occur in connection with the vigorous defense of the criminal charges that have been laid against her. These images and the emails to which they are attached are essential to demonstrating Attorney General Kane’s innocence, and the abject flaws in the District Attorney’s Affidavit of Probable Cause. Some emails had pornographic photos or videos; others were racially or religiously offensive.
Recently unsealed court documents say a grand jury judge’s protective order against retaliation wasn’t meant to prevent the appropriate public disclosure of information in the emails.
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To borrow her estranged husband’s trucking motto, “Kane wasn’t able” to do the job she was elected to do from Day 1 and her insane rantings are proof she needs to go now.
