Even The Philadelphia Inquirer has questions about defending Larry Krasner At what point does the newspaper give up on a criminal-loving and police-hating prosecutor?

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We have frequently noted The Philadelphia Inquirer’s seemingly unqualified support for the city’s George Soros-sponsored — $1.7 million in 2017 and $1.2 million in 2021 — criminal-loving, police-hating District Attorney, Larry Krasner, but even the Inky has been unable to avoid covering the news about Mr Krasner’s problems.

The newspaper said of Mr Krasner, in 2017:

Krasner says his defense work doesn’t make him soft on crime, but rather someone who can differentiate between redeemable defendants and hardened criminals.

Yet the District Attorney was upset that two police officers, in two separate cases, received lower sentences, even though it was conceded that they posed no future threats. Apparently Mr Krasner doesn’t see police officers as “redeemable defendants.”

Now there’s this:

DA’s office says two prosecutors who said Krasner told them to ‘protect the office’ in controversial case are ‘ill-informed’

The contentious court filing by two Philadelphia prosecutors this week was unauthorized and inappropriate, the district attorney’s office said Thursday.

by Ellie Rushing and Chris Palmer | Thursday, July 23, 2026 | 7:45 PM EDT

The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office said Thursday that the two prosecutors who accused DA Larry Krasner of encouraging them to act unethically in a controversial appellate case did so in a court filing that was both unauthorized and “ill-informed.”

In a court document filed late Thursday, written by Assistant District Attorney Thomas Gaeta and signed by Krasner, the office said prosecutors Katherine Ernst and Steven J. Wildberger acted inappropriately and without Krasner’s permission when they filed a brief Monday saying the office had a conflict in the appeal of Dennis Johnson, who is seeking to have his murder conviction overturned.

The office said it had taken steps to address all of the issues it saw with Johnson’s case, and that Ernst and Wildberger’s assertions were “ill-informed” and made without firsthand knowledge because they were no longer a part of the case.

The filing primarily focused on the steps the office took to ensure it was handling the case in a legal and ethical manner — and did not directly address the two prosecutors’ contentions that Krasner had asked them to “protect the office.”

In their filing Monday, Ernst and Wildberger said they tried to persuade Krasner to allow the state attorney general’s office to take over Johnson’s appeal after the prosecutor previously assigned to the case, Jaclyn Mason, recommended that his case be overturned — a recommendation the office later sought to reverse, saying Mason’s filing was full of false statements.

Let’s be clear about this: someone is lying through his scummy teeth! Now would it be Mr Wildberger, Miss Ernst, and Miss Mason, all subordinate attorney’s who would have no interest in lying, and risking their licenses to practice law along with prison, if they had just gone along to get along, or Mr Krasner and his more loyal subordinates, trying to protect their office and reputations, when the DA’s office has already had a lawyer disbarred for lying, and a second one suspended?

Ralph Cipriano of the Big Trial Blog has covered this extensively, and I have included links to seven of his non-paywalled articles on the case in the Related Articles section at the bottom of this page. Mr Cipriano is, to say no more, very displeased with both Mr Krasner and the Inquirer; you can judge his articles for yourself.

At some point, even Mr Krasner’s supporters at the Inky are going to have to wonder if they’ve made a bad bet. Yes, they have supported Mr Krasner’s attempts to free innocent men convicted of crimes, but surely, surely! they are starting to wonder just how innocent some of those exonerated men are.

Mr Krasner is a former criminal defense attorney, and it seems as though Philly’s top prosecutor is still acting as a defense lawyer. I mused on Twitter whether, after he leaves office, Mr Krasner would then join the Amistad Law Project, and their goal of ending incarceration of criminals almost completely. We have previously noted how Amistad Law wants to end what they call “death by incarceration,” life without the possibility of parole sentences, but vigorously support prenatal infanticide. They are very much pro-life for convicted murderers, and very much pro-death for the innocent unborn, a conundrum that just boggles the mind. But, for Mr Krasner, that’s all quite normal.
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