In another blow to Krasner's credibility, judge McDermott throws out case against officer Pownall. 

https://www.inquirer.com/news/ryan-pownall-philadelphia-police-murder-case-dismissed-20221011.html

A Philadelphia judge dismissed all charges Tuesday against former city police officer Ryan Pownall, ruling that prosecutors had failed years ago to provide proper legal instructions to a grand jury as it weighed whether to charge him with murder in a 2017 on-duty shooting.

Common Pleas Court Judge Barbara A. McDermott said there were "so many things wrong” with how the District Attorney’s Office instructed grand jurors before they approved a presentment recommending murder charges in the landmark case.

In particular, McDermott said during a pre-trial hearing, prosecutors had failed to provide the panel with information on how and when officers are legally justified in firing their weapons. "How could the grand jury do [its] job without knowing that?” she asked.

She chastised prosecutors for what she viewed as a series of other errors, saying if a defense attorney had behaved in a similar fashion before her, "I would declare them incompetent.”

The use-of-force law had already been a significant issue in Pownall’s case. In 2019, as the case awaited trial, prosecutors asked McDermott to give jurors instructions about the statute that differed from the state’s criminal code.

McDermott declined to do so, and prosecutors appealed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The high court this year affirmed McDermott’s decision, saying prosecutors had chosen the wrong venue — Pownall’s trial — to try to upend the use-of-force law, which they viewed as unconstitutional.

McDermott on Tuesday referenced that protracted back-and-forth, asking prosecutors: If the law was so significant that they wanted her and the state Supreme Court to overturn it, how could they have failed to mention it to grand jurors who were weighing whether to charge Pownall?

On 6/15/2022 at 8:09 AM, Dave Moss said:

Yeah, he’s a Jewish notzee.  Gotta love the white supremacy on this site.

 

Sounds like political theater, even if deserved, I doubt there's enough votes to make this happen.