Former Attorney General Goes to Prison

To ensure fair justice, a Pennsylvania judge ordered the former Commonwealth Attorney General to go to jail on Thursday at 9 am, more than two years after his conviction for leaks and misleading information about the great jury.

Democrat Kathleen Kane, 52, had been released on bail of $ 75,000 while she was appealing her 10-to-23-month jail sentence. The state Supreme Court announced Monday that she had refused to defend herself.

"Since the motive for the defendant to remain at liberty pending the appeal has expired, the bail after conviction is revoked," wrote Judge Wendy Demchick-Alloy to order Kane to report to the court. Montgomery County Correctional Facility. Demchick-Alloy officially asked the Lackawanna County Sheriff to serve a copy of his order on Kane, who lives in Scranton.

Kane's lawyer, Joshua Lock, did not respond to multiple messages seeking comment.

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The Montgomery County Attorney's Office officially requested the order earlier on Tuesday, claiming that the Supreme Court's decision was the end of the legal path for Kane.

"Two different courts of appeal have examined his case, but his judgment has still not been delivered.

"She has benefited from a fair trial, her guilt has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt and it is now time for her to serve her sentence," said District Attorney Kevin Steele.

Kane was convicted of two counts of perjury for felony and seven offenses, including obstruction and conspiracy.

The first woman and first Democrat to be elected Attorney General of Pennsylvania, Kane resigned after being convicted in October 2016.

She had argued before the Superior Court that she should have been allowed to use evidence of a badgraphic e-mail scandal that would have shaken the judicial community of the state, as well as evidence relating to the Jerry case Sandusky of children molestation pursued by his former office.

The motion to set aside Steele's bail at Demchick-Alloy provided that Kane may have argued that the judge had the discretion to keep Kane on bail while she "seeks a new examination by # 39; State. "

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The District Attorney stated that this was only possible as part of a High Court request to reconsider his decision dismissing his appeal, which he said could not be done simply to delay the sentence. .

He said that a reconsideration request could only have one purpose of delay.

"The Pennsylvania Supreme Court's refusal to conduct a discretionary review should be seen as the conclusion of (Kane's) remedies for a direct appeal to a state court," Steele said.

The lower court of appeal also rejected Kane's argument that she should have allowed all Montgomery County judges to deal with her case, as well as her claims that evidence against her had been illegally obtained and that she had been the victim of selective and vindictive prosecution.

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