On Thursday morning, the Editorial Board of The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote:
This board has long supported (District Attorney Larry) Krasner’s efforts to examine claims of wrongful convictions. But the board does not support cutting corners or lying to the court.
There is an assumption behind that short paragraph, an assumption that there are wrongful convictions. And while the Board do not support “cutting corners or lying to the court,” that very same Editorial Board headlined, on July 2nd, “Krasner isn’t perfect. The Pa. Supreme Court’s ruling on his exoneration push is worse. Ordering the state’s top prosecutor to oversee conviction reviews by Philadelphia’s district attorney is an unprecedented remedy that may create more problems than it solves.” What are we to conclude other than the Board is less concerned with not “cutting corners or lying to the court” than they are with freeing more convicted criminals?
It’s not as though some of the previously convicted murderers that Mr Krasner got freed didn’t go on to kill other people.
Krasner’s office is accused of lying and cutting corners to win exonerations — and the wrongly convicted could pay the steepest price | Editorial
A former prosecutor testified that the district attorney’s office colluded with defense attorneys and encouraged its own lawyers to lie. Even in service of a righteous cause, that’s unacceptable.
by The Editorial Board | Thursday, July 23, 2026 | 6:01 AM EDT
District Attorney Larry Krasner has a growing credibility problem and needs to take steps soon to repair the damage to his office.
Attorneys lying through their scummy teeth to state and federal courts is more than “a growing credibility problem,” but are actual crimes. And expecting a District Attorney who somehow encouraged his subordinates to do that isn’t the one to “take steps soon to repair the damage to his office.” Mr Krasner is the damage to his office.
Does anyone seriously thing that licensed attorneys are going to commit crimes to further the political interests of their employer without the boss’ knowledge and at least subtle encouragement?
During an extraordinary hearing in federal court last week, one of Krasner’s former prosecutors testified that his office colluded with defense attorneys to try to overturn a murder conviction, and encouraged her to lie to the judge to conceal the shoddy handling of the man’s appeal.
In sworn testimony before U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond, former Assistant District Attorney Jaclyn Mason said she refused to move forward with a plan to take the blame and instead resigned last month.
The federal court hearing came on the heels of other damaging rulings that determined prosecutors in Krasner’s office have been lying to the courts.
It’s more than just getting convictions reversed: Mr Krasner and his minions have spent time, money, and effort in trying to get a convicted murderer off death row, and sentenced to life without parole, conceding that he is guilty, but trying to spare him a capital sentence in a state which has not executed anyone since 1999. Assistant District Attorney Paul George was disbarred by a federal court for ‘repeatedly lying’ in that attempt. Even then, the three executions which have occurred in the Keystone State were all of men who voluntarily dropped their appeals, just to get it all over.
Ed Rendell, a Democrat and Governor from 2003 up until 2011, signed 78 death warrants, and his successor, Republican Tom Corbett, signed 48, but none were actually carried out due to various stays and legal appeals.
It seems that the only people Mr Krasner really wants to punish are police officers and the pardoned January 6 Capitol kerfufflers, most of whom had already completed their sentences.
This is what happens when the George Soros-sponsored, criminal-loving and police-hating “progressive” prosecutors get elected: we get prosecutors who want to coddle criminals and throw law enforcement officers in prison.