Larry Krasner Discovers Philadelphia Has a Prosecutor for Prosecutors

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner has spent years transforming the city's criminal justice system into a fascinating social experiment in which prosecutors are apparently expected to worry about everyone except themselves.

Now the experiment has entered an unexpected phase: Krasner is the subject of a federal criminal referral.

A federal judge has referred Krasner and one of his top deputies to the Justice Department following allegations arising from a 2009 murder case. U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond issued a 40-page memorandum raising concerns about whether Krasner and Matthew Stiegler, chief of the Philadelphia DA's Conviction Integrity Unit, pressured prosecutors to present a false account of the case.

The allegations are tied to Dennis Johnson, who is seeking to overturn his 2009 murder conviction.

According to the judge's memorandum, hearings that began in May uncovered potential conflicts of interest and raised questions about how Krasner's office handled the case.

Judge Diamond described Krasner's conduct as "troubling" and suggested that he may have urged subordinates to "implement and present a false narrative to the court."

That's generally the sort of sentence a district attorney hopes to read about in somebody else's biography.

The judge also said Krasner and Stiegler were urged to refer the matter to the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General, but Krasner refused, perhaps to cover his own butt.

The memorandum reportedly says Krasner warned there "would be consequences" if employees "alerted the court to the conflict issue."

So, according to the allegations, Philadelphia's progressive prosecutor may have developed a novel approach to criminal justice: aggressively pursue accountability for everyone else while encouraging employees to think very carefully about where they point the accountability spotlight.

Unfortunately for Krasner, the spotlight has apparently developed a mind of its own and it's pointing directly at him.

Krasner has built his national reputation as one of America's most prominent progressive prosecutors. His approach has included policies that critics say have made Philadelphia's crime problem worse, while Krasner and his supporters have defended his record as a necessary correction to traditional prosecution.

He has also spent considerable political energy opposing the Trump administration's immigration enforcement efforts.

At one point, Krasner threatened to prosecute federal immigration officers operating in Philadelphia, sounding a lot like Zohran Mamdani.

Yes, the elected district attorney of Philadelphia was prepared to put federal immigration agents in his crosshairs for enforcing federal immigration law.

Now a federal judge has referred him to the Justice Department for investigation.

The plot practically writes itself.

Krasner's office has spent years reminding the public, tongue-in-cheek, that nobody is above the law. 

Apparently, the law was listening.

Krasner isn't conceding anything. He responded:

"I respectfully and vigorously disagree with the court's findings of fact and conclusions of law. I look forward to appealing to the higher court as soon as the law allows. This remains a pending matter, which limits for now my and my office's ability to respond in the media." 

Naturally, there is an important distinction here. Krasner has not been convicted of a crime. The judge's referral is not a criminal conviction, and the allegations involving Krasner and Stiegler remain allegations subject to investigation and further proceedings.

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Still, it must be an unusual experience for a progressive prosecutor to discover that the criminal justice system has a feature he apparently never installed in Philadelphia: a return address.

For years, Krasner has operated as though the primary purpose of the justice system was to investigate, prosecute and incarcerate the people his office deemed worthy of attention. Now Washington has apparently decided that Larry Krasner deserves some attention, too.

And somewhere in Philadelphia, a federal prosecutor is probably opening a file and discovering that the city's most famous prosecutor has finally been given the one assignment nobody in the DA's office wanted:

Explain yourself.

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Fani Willis must pay Trump co-defendant's lawyer after ruling

On Tuesday, the Georgia Supreme Court made a decision that allows a lawyer for one of Donald Trump's co-defendants in the election interference case to make Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis give them documents and money.

In a different case, the court supported a decision from a lower court made on Monday that was good news for the Merchant Law Firm. The firm argued that Willis' office wasn't following the Open Records Act (ORA). Ashleigh Merchant, a lawyer from the firm, claimed that even though they asked for documents about 20 times in the last year, Willis' office didn't give them what they needed and now will suffer the consequences. 

"She is the elected DA. It's her office. I think that every government agency has a duty to respond to open records requests. I think when you have an elected official that they are the ones who are held accountable by the public. They are the ones who set the policy," Merchant said at the hearing Monday.

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Soros funded Calif. DA had thoughts about keeping gang bangers accused of killing toddler out of jail

A California district attorney with solid Soros-backing is reported to have told the  family of a murder victim that her office is looking at ways to punish the gang bangers who killed their toddler son, without sending them to prison. Like all Soros-backed bozos, this DA, Pamela Price, cares more about the criminals than their victims. She also has to be in favor of super-late-term abortion as exemplified by the value she places on the baby boy. 

Price is the Alameda County DA who, like other law hating politicians and lawyers, received campaign support from billionaire George Soros. She made the remarks in an email sent to a community member and obtained by local media.

One-year-old Jasper Wu died in the crossfire of a gang shootout on Interstate 880 in 2021. Of the four suspects, three were charged with murder and one was murdered himself in another shootout.

On Thursday, ABC 7 published portions of the email, which reportedly came in response to a query from a supporter of the Wu family and member of Alameda's Asian and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community who asked for an update on the case.

It was addressed "To the Chinese communities" and stated that "some people don't know about the basic principles of constitutional law."

"Our office is currently working on a partnership with the Asian Law Caucus to support AAPI victims of violence in ways that open up broader possibilities for healing and non-carceral forms of accountability." The term 'non-carceral' is the antonym of incarceration. Price wants them not to have to go to prison!

You want to heal a community who lost a toddler to a gang shooting? Maybe the old "eye for an eye" thing would help them heal, you know, like a firing squad execution if found guilty. They shot; they get shot. I would even accept "old Sparky' or the needle. 

After hearing Price's response to the murder the Asian Law Caucus said they were "very confused about this."

The baby was asleep in a car seat as his parents drove down I-880 on Nov. 6, 2021, when rival San Francisco gang members opened fire on each other from separate cars, according to authorities.

A stray bullet tore through the Wu family's vehicle and fatally struck Jasper, according to authorities.

Norbert Chu, a former Alameda prosecutor, told ABC 7 that a bid to not seek prison time for the three surviving suspects would be "insulting."

"If I were Jasper's parents, I would be highly offended," he told the outlet. "And I would be very fearful."

"There are almost no consequences due to no threat of severe punishments," they told ABC 7. "How would that restore public's faith in the justice system? How would the public feel safe?"

Several members of Price's office quit in protest of her hybristophilia policies earlier this week. It seems as if Soros-funded flunkies and most Democrats love the criminals and hate babies.

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Trump makes incredible claim about DA Bragg's case on him

GOP presidential candidate and former President Donald J. Trump is not one to temper hyperbole. He said on Saturday that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has dropped the case against him regarding alleged campaign violations.

"I think they've already dropped the case," Trump told reporters after appearing at a campaign rally in Waco, Texas. "It's a fake case. Some fake cases, they have absolutely nothing," he claimed.

And Trump may be correct. Alvin Bragg seems to have his eyes set on bigger things than even his belly--like running for New York State Governor and maybe even the presidency one day. So it's a no brainer that this entire case against Trump is political, especially since Bragg bragged about getting Trump when he vied for the DA job.

Trump's campaign spokesman Steven Cheung was asked by Fox News Digital about the Trump claim about the case being dropped and said: "This has been dropped because everyone knows this was a partisan witch-hunt by a radical, leftist DA that sought to politically weaponize the Justice system to influence an election."

Last week Bragg's office was expect to issue an indictment for alleged hush-money payments that Trump supposedly made as a presidential candidate in 2016 to porn actress Stormy Daniels [whose real name is Stephanie Clifford] in 2016. Trump, who dubbed Daniels with the sobriquet "Horse Face" denied the claim.

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee demand Bragg testify before Congress about the details of the probe, which was met with a harsh response on Saturday by Bragg who apparently does not want to be held accountable for his politically motivated actions.

The office seemed to say: "We evaluate cases in our jurisdiction as we see fit, based on facts that correspond with our truth, and evidence that supports our cause against whiteness." 

But they didn't come out and say it this way.

The office told Fox News Digital that Bragg "stands by" his previous pledge to publicly state the conclusion of the investigation, "whether we conclude our work without bringing charges, or move forward with an indictment."

Then it's on to the governorship in the near future.

Meanwhile, the case is still in limbo as we wait to see if it will go forward or prove Trump right . . . again.

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Soros 'Owned' DA Kim Gardner Guilty on 141 Counts

St. Louis, Missouri District Attorney Kim Gardner [remember her?] lost he appeal for refusing to hand over communications she had with operatives of far left anti-America George Soros [a billionaire palindrome] and other leftists in her prosecution of former Governor Eric Greitens.

She has already been found to have committed 62 acts of misconduct, and 79 cases of misrepresentation in convicting the former governor of crimes he DID NOT COMMIT and of which he was later cleared. 

Now Greitens is running for the US Senate from Missouri, and he has a good chance of winning.

Gardner has been a St Louis clusterfrack [sic]. 

The murder rate last year was the highest it has been in the last half century and she has refused to prosecute so many of them that the Missouri legislature passed a law limiting the time she had to file murder charges to 90 days. If she continued to not file, which has been her wont, the state AG takes over the case and justice will be done.

Gardner adamantly refused to prosecute cases involving drug dealers and child molesters in spite of mountains of evidence that these were slam-dunk, open-and-shut cases. She used the race card against the police and totally refused to take on cases from over 20 cops.

A Missouri Appeals Court ruled unanimously against her and she will have to face disciplinary charges on her corrupt practices and pay the $5,000 dollar fine she previously received, which one might guess Soros will pay.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported:

The Missouri Court of Appeals at St. Louis on Tuesday upheld a judge’s ruling against the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office for failing to respond to a lawsuit that alleged violations of the state’s open records law.

The appeals court’s unanimous ruling said Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner’s appeals had “no merit.” She had challenged St. Louis Circuit Judge Christopher McGraugh’s ruling and $5,000 penalty for refusing to produce records and respond in time to a January 2020 lawsuit filed by conservative journalist John Solomon.

“Based on this whole record, we hold the trial court did not err in finding (Gardner’s) failure to file a timely response to (Solomon’s) amended petition was not the result of an unexpected or unavoidable hindrance, accident, or mishap, but was instead the result of (Gardner’s) carelessness, inattention, and deliberate disregard,” the court said.

Solomon, a former Fox News contributor who runs the website Just the News, sought all of Gardner’s contacts with staff and other key players in the 2018 criminal investigations of then-Gov. Eric Greitens.

Those people include Missouri Times publisher Scott Faughn, Clayton lawyer Albert Watkins, billionaire mega-donor George Soros and former state Reps. Stacey Newman and Jay Barnes.

So justice will be done, at least to some degree and hopefully Gardner will never be able to practice law ever again. 

When everyone who is different from you based on their immutable characteristics is viewed as racist, you are looking at them through a racist lens, and it's disgusting. Do not accept that label and call out their racism if they pull it on you.

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Calif. LGBTQ child molester charged with 1st degree murder

A gender dysphoric man who goes by the name Hannah Tubbs, is a California inmate for molesting a child. He is now being charged Tuesday with murder in the first degree by Kern County after he was recently charged in connection to a 2019 robbery.

Tubbs is being held on one million dollar bond and is scheduled to appear for an arraignment hearing Tuesday afternoon, as per Kern County court documents.

A spokesman for DA George  Gascón's office told Fox News that Los Angeles officials will be notified if Tubbs is released from custody in Kern County because Gascón, a George Soros sponsored scumcrumpet, has more sympathy for murderers than he has for the murdered and victims in general.

"District Attorney George Gascón is committed to protecting the public and especially our children," the spokesman claimed without evidence. "In this case, Hannah Tubbs continues to serve her [he's a dude] Los Angeles County sentence, while being prosecuted on an unrelated robbery charge in Kern County," Ricardo Santiago, a public information officer for the DAs office said. "Her transfer was based on a 2019 warrant and approved by a court."

Tubbs became the center of controversy earlier this year when he pleaded guilty in connection with a 2014 assault on a 17-year-old girl inside a Denny's restaurant bathroom. Tubbs grabbed the girl by the throat, locked her in a stall and sexually assaulted her.

So it's possible that Tubbs who claims to identify as a woman, is actually identifying as a lesbian--makes perfect sense . . . if you're a leftist.

Tubbs pleaded guilty to the attack last month, though the incident took place when Tubbs was two weeks shy of 18 and went by the name James Edward Tubbs. 

When authorities arrested Tubbs roughly eight years after the crime, the weasel, who has since been convicted of child molestation, began identifying as a woman, according to prosecutors. Evidently, it's safer "becoming" a woman in a woman's prison than just a guy who molests children in a man's prison, where they don't take well to men that hurt children.

Tubbs was sentenced to two years at a juvenile facility because Gascón refused to have him transferred to adult court, as his directive from day-one barred "children" from being tried as adults. Tubbs may not even be required to register as a sex offender and he could "walk" in as little as six months.

This case, among others, sparked criticism of Gascón's directive that minor offenders who have been suspected of  committing serious crimes not be tried as adults. Now Gascón is facing a recall effort following the Tubbs sentence, as LA County Supervisor Kathryn Barger called the outcome regarding Mr. Tubbs "unsatisfactory." 

Barger is the queen  of understatement.

"Judge Barrera’s hands were tied today – due to the fact that the DA’s office failed to file a motion to transfer Tubbs to adult criminal court, which is where she rightly belongs," Barger said. "Instead, we’re left with a 26-year-old individual sentenced to two years in a juvenile facility in isolation, separated by sight and sound from the other juveniles."

Tubbs was later caught on a jailhouse phone call gloating about the case and bragging that he wouldn't have to register as a sex offender.

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Tubbs was also accused of sexually molesting a 4-year-old girl at a California library in August 2013 while her mother was browsing books "just a few aisles over."

If he identifies as a woman, the court should demand he have his twig and berries removed.

Tubbs is currently being held under the name James Tubbs in Kern County.

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Soros-backed Manhattan DA to lower crime by practically legalizing it

Manhattan's newest District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, has told his army of attorneys and support staff that things are going to change in the Wormy Apple. He said his office “will not seek a carceral [sic] sentence” for anything short of murder or deadly assault. Also, he says minor crime will not be prosecuted at all.

Bragg's use of the word "carceral" sounds Orwellian, but while he meant to imply it meant "prison," it actually means circular or having the movement of a circle. So . . .  there's that.

So unless you hold someone at gunpoint and pull the trigger, you're only going to get a misdemeanor if you get caught. If you do a "smash and grab," you're in luck if you don't kill someone in the process. If you're a heavy drug dealer, you may get an appearance ticket of a slap on the wrist. 

See, jail is only going to be reserved for the most violent of the violent and if history repeats itself, New York City is going to be even more of a shooting gallery blood bath than it currently is and people better beware. In the immortal words of radio philosopher, Jean Shepherd : "Keep your knees loose and give 'em a low silhouette against the moon . . . and if you want to be a duck, don't be a sitting duck . . . keep moving."

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I guess we'll see how well the new Mayor of New York Eric Adams lives up to his word that he will be taking on crime head-on.

Words are easy, I use them every blog post.

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LA liberal DA releases convicted killer, County Sheriff rips her a new one

Comrade Gascón

For some reason, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department blasted a deputy district attorney after she allowed a convicted murderer to be released. As Democratic House Leader Nancy "Hands-a-Blur" Pelosi once said, we are all creatures of G_d. Just because someone kills someone else is no reason to be upset with the killer. Everyone deserves a chance, and everyone deserves a trophy for showing up.

That's the insane philosophy of the far left.

According to The Los Angeles Daily News, L.A. County Deputy DA Alisa Blair did not present evidence at a hearing last week meant to determine if Andrew Cachu should serve his full sentence for killing Louis Amela, 41, in March 2015. [H/T Fox News]

Cachu killed Amela two months before his 18th birthday, which makes him eligible for a retroactive transfer hearing to determine if his case should remain in the juvenile court system or be transferred to adult court. 

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Under California law, offenders convicted as juveniles must be released by the age of 25 no matter how many people they kill and lives they ruin.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department anger-tweeted that Blair's decision to hold back evidence was "intentional."

"I was present in court when the judge said he thought it was intentional," Kathy Cady, an attorney for Amela's family, told Fox News. "He asked her if she wanted to present any evidence and asked if she wanted additional time to bring in witnesses. She declined both. Based on her actions, I agree with the judge."

"Louis Amela's family is devastated," Cady continued. "They have been abandoned by Gascón and believe that Alisa Blair was only interested in helping the convicted murderer. They feel that the justice system failed them."

Daily News' reporting explains how Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Brian C. Yep [yep, that's his name] didn't have an option to keep Cachu in prison since Blair didn't show how the state would help him through the Division of Juvenile Justice.

Cachu, a creature of G_d, is expected to be released soon and is being held until then at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles.

Alex Bastian, a comrade and special assistant to Gascón, told the Los Angeles Daily News the judge was left with no other option but to release Cachu.

"However, there were no witnesses who could testify to the fact that [Division of Juvenile Justice] has specific programming that would benefit Mr. Cachu presently. Understandably, the probation report was also deficient in its ability to articulate specific programming as required by state law. The judge was left with no legal option other than to terminate juvenile jurisdiction," Bastian said.

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Soros-backed DA walks back the bull after public outcry, apologizes to family of murdered victims

Newly-elected Soros-backed D.A. of Los Angeles County, the far-far-Left George Gascón was seen and heard saying to a local Fox affiliate KTTV-11 that "It's unfortunate that we have people who do not have enough education so they can keep their mouth shut for a moment so we can talk." The D.A. dope was referring to the family members of murder victims.

In an example, a woman who was later identified as the mother of Joshua Rodriguez, a young man murdered in 2015, was heard saying: “My son can never speak again because he was murdered — kidnapped, tortured, and murdered. My son matters.”  You can see the exchange on the Twitter link below and how the creep D.A. eventually turned his back on the families:

BREAKING: We've obtained video of LA D.A. George Gascon at the Pomona courthouse today where he can be heard saying "It's unfortunate that some people do not have enough education to keep their mouth shut so we can talk" as the family of a murdered victim yells at him. @FOXLA pic.twitter.com/IkHVhhp25u

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) December 19, 2020

Gascón's campaign was financed with millions of dollars from communist billionaire George Soros.  In fact, Soros has funded the election of left-wing prosecutors across the country and repeatedly tries to push the United States and other countries as far to the left as he can.

Since taking office earlier this month, the lawless seeking Gascón begun implementing radical policies that have included ending cash bail, preventing prosecutors from seeking the death penalty, and removing some sentencing enhancements for crimes such as using a gun or belonging to a gang.

One case involved a suspect charged with a double murder, including that of L.A. Sheriff’s Deputy Gilbert Solano. Perhaps it's Gascón's way of his support to defund the police and maybe even have them handcuffed instead of his crime buddies.

Bill Melugin of Fox LA tweeted this:

NEW: Under new D.A. George Gascon’s reforms, I’ve confirmed his office is trying to dismiss all enhancements & special circumstances against the alleged double murderer/cop killer accused of shooting LASD deputy Gilbert Solano in the back of his head. His sister is irate. @FOXLA pic.twitter.com/SxnPiOuRPG

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) December 15, 2020

After the public gave him some heat, the leftist restored some enhancements, including for hate crimes, child abuse, or sex trafficking — though not for crime with guns, gangs, or prior convictions.

Solano issued a statement of apology to Fox 11 for his rude and thoughtless statement about the family of victims, claiming he was speaking without knowing to whom he was verbally inappropriate, proving it was he, who needed an education:

While speaking to colleagues outside of the office there were individuals yelling on opposite sides of the crowd. I did not understand what they were yelling about until later, let alone that they were victims. Regardless, it’s not how I should have reacted. Clearly this family is in pain, and I will be contacted them to speak directly and hear them out. The defendants in this case are all facing life in prison.

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After receiving more public backlash, Gascón walked back some sentencing enhancements for cases involving "the most vulnerable" victims. Had these victims been his own family members, it's suspected he would have never been so cavalier as to allow the perpetrators to basically walk out of jail without bail.

In a memo to his staff, Gascón reportedly claimed he had re-evaluated a special directive he impulsively issued just 11 days earlier after taking the oath of office which prohibited prosecutors from seeking sentence enhancements and required they be withdrawn from matters still pending by the court. He said he amended that policy and told deputy district attorneys they may now file enhancements in a limited range of circumstances, including hate-motivated crimes, child and elder abuse cases, sex abuse, and human sex trafficking.

Sentence enhancements are intended to act as extra punishments, added on to the charge of an underlying offense.

Gascón obviously responded by retracting his original directive only because the public went ballistic over its flipping off law and order. 

It's really no mystery as to why people with the means to do so, are leaving California in droves.

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