Larry Krasner's Office Keeps Freeing Murderers, No Matter the Cost

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https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/08/31/larry-krasners-office-keeps-freeing-murderers-no-matter-the-cost-n3818546

Just shy of four years ago I wrote about a case in which DA Larry Krasner's office had freed a convicted murderer and then the same man, Jahmir Harris, became a suspect in another, very similar murder. The judge had agreed to vacate the previous conviction in 2021, but still had some criticism for Krasner's Conviction Integrity Unit.

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And all of that brings us to last week where Krasner's team was in court again trying to help free yet another convicted murderer. But thanks to his office's previous missteps the court was full of attorneys including three from his own office who argued the case was being mishandled.

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But the biggest revelation during last Thursday's hearing was testimony from Ernst, one of the three lawyers still working for Krasner, that he had threatened to fire anyone who told the judge about problems with the case.

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The day Larry Krasner’s office was put on trial — by his own prosecutors

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/krasner-hearing-testimony-dennis-johnson-exoneration-20260831.html

There were so many jaw-dropping moments in U.S. District Court Judge Paul S. Diamond’s courtroom on Thursday that it is hard to know where to begin.

For starters, I had a stint covering courts in the mid-2000s, and have never seen a courtroom packed with so many lawyers — including lawyers representing lawyers — for a hearing in an exoneration case. An overflow room was needed to handle the rapt onlookers.

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While Johnson was in court with his attorneys, the hearing focused on the machinations within Krasner’s office.

The office has already run into a heap of legal trouble over previous efforts to overturn other convictions or reduce sentences, mainly for those convicted of murder.

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It was easy to see why after three prosecutors — who still work for Krasner — provided damning testimony about their own office’s sloppy handling of efforts to vacate Johnson’s conviction. They accused Krasner of conduct that bordered on paranoia and cover-up, and painted a picture of an office that seemed less focused on the pursuit of justice than on shielding itself.

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More on the blatant corruption in Krasner's office...

Former assistant Philly DA says she was used as a ‘pawn’ in appeal of 2009 murder conviction

https://www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio/news/local/jaclyn-mason-former-assistant-da-testifies-2009-murder-conviction-appeal

A former Philadelphia assistant district attorney testified Friday that she was told to side with a defendant as they appealed a murder conviction in Federal court at the direction of her boss, a top official within the office.

Judge Paul Diamond called the evidentiary hearing because the District Attorney’s Office agreed to overturn a 2009 murder conviction and then recanted; the judge is trying to figure out what happened and why.

The DA assigned to handle that appeal was Jaclyn Mason, who was with the office’s Federal Litigation Unit until she resigned earlier this year because she “refused to participate in a cover-up for the four supervisors.”

She testified there were a series of meetings between herself, her boss Matt Stiegler, Federal defenders and the Innocence Project, to figure out which of the defendant’s claims they should move forward with — in her words, “colluding” to get the defendant relief.

Mason testified that Stiegler used her as a pawn, and told her, “if it’s good enough for the Innocence Project, it’s good enough for me.”

She said Stiegler directed her to write the legal document conceding that the defendant’s appeal should be granted, but was never directed to investigate, read trial testimony or speak with the trial prosecutor.

She told the judge that when she realized something in the brief wasn’t true, she went to her supervisors and others in the unit to raise concerns, before eventually resigning. That’s when the office pulled their concession.

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Philadelphia getting exactly what it elected...