Chesa Boudin, move over. You were only accused of being soft on criminals and not prosecuting them.
Philadelphia's District Attorney has gone one better: he actively lies to courts in order to spring people convicted of murder, earning him a strong rebuke—an unprecedented rebuke, in fact—from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
Lest you think that court is filled with rabid, hang-em-high Republicans, you should know that the Court is selected through partisan elections, and the current balance is 5 Democrats and 2 Republicans.
This is a split decision, but shows that the presumption of regulatory for Soros-funded radical leftwing DA Krasner is gone. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has had enough. It needs someone to "enhance the reliability" of proceedings. Yikes!
— Eric W. (@EWess92) June 16, 2026
Krasner is currently the highest-profile "Soros Prosecutor," famous for his beyond soft-on-crime policies. He turns out to be an active advocate for criminals, helping to get murderers out of jail based on false claims of prosecutorial misconduct.
Pennsylvania has a court specifically charged with reviewing cases and relies on the same adversarial procedures used in trials. Krasner, as the prosecutor, is supposed to represent the state and present the facts as he knows them. The Court, reviewing his conduct, has concluded that he has regularly misled the Court.
First, the issue is a state post conviction relief statute that allows certain defendants who are wrongfully convicted to get relief. What happened here is the Philadelphia DA’s office under Larry Krasner’s abused it by repeatedly making misrepresentations to the court.
— Abhi Kambli (@AbhiKambli1984) June 17, 2026
This isn't being "soft on crime." Krasner's office is lying to get murderers off, claiming that prior prosecutors violated the law, and that the convicts should be granted relief on that basis.
In a forceful and scolding opinion, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that District Attorney Larry Krasner’s office misled the courts, “violated its duty of candor,” and submitted false statements when asking a judge to vacate a 2004 murder conviction.
In the opinion released Tuesday, Justice Kevin Dougherty wrote that prosecutors’ pattern of misleading judges in seeking to overturn murder convictions is so troubling and recurrent that, going forward, before Krasner’s office seeks such relief, judges must notify the state attorney general’s office and allow it to review the case.
The decision amounted to one of the most scathing rebukes yet of Krasner’s efforts to revisit decades-old convictions, and arrives amid intensifying scrutiny of the office’s Conviction Integrity Unit and appeals division, whose handling of post-conviction cases has drawn criticism from judges in both state and federal court.
Just last week, Krasner’s office reversed course in a separate murder case, writing in a federal court filing that one of its prosecutors had made “material misstatements” and submitted “legally erroneous” statements when seeking to overturn a man’s murder conviction. The office sought to withdraw its recommendation to grant the defendant a new trial.
Let that sink in. Marinate in it. The chief prosecutor in the City of Philadelphia lied to the courts in order to help murderers get new trials and potentially a "get-out-of-jail-free" card, and the Supreme Court finds him so unreliable that it has empowered the Attorney General of the State of Pennsylvania to intervene whenever it feels like it.
That duty to administer justice does not only apply to treating the defendant fairly but to actually make sure people are being held accountable for their crimes. Krasner’s office was abusing post conviction remedies to let off murderers. That is no joke. It’s life and death.
— Abhi Kambli (@AbhiKambli1984) June 17, 2026
These aren't shoplifting cases. The specific case it reviewed involved a murderer who plotted an armed robbery with malice aforethought. It wasn't a gang fight, or a domestic dispute. It was cold-blooded murder, and Krasner went to bat for him.
And in December, a panel of federal judges voted to disbar a supervisor in the office’s appellate unit, saying he “lied repeatedly” while seeking to overturn the death sentence of a man who killed a couple inside their East Mount Airy home, then left their infant daughter inside to die.
By giving the state attorney general authority to intervene when Philadelphia prosecutors decline to defend a conviction, the high court added a new layer of oversight to the state’s largest prosecutor’s office — a rare step that reshapes who controls post-conviction litigation in Pennsylvania.
Krasner, in a video statement shared late Tuesday, said the high court’s ruling “undermines the value of a vote in Philadelphia as compared to every other county.”
Krasner has no regrets. He fires back at the Supreme Court that he was elected, so he can do whatever the hell he wants, including violating his duty of candor in legal proceedings.
I'm no legal beagle, but one can argue that Krasner has half a point. I looked it up, and the City of Philadelphia doesn't operate under a state charter, as is often the case. Which means that to some extent the city can set the rules by which it is governed, provided that those rules do not violate the US or Pennsylvania constitutions.
On the other hand, lying to a state court is another matter. The rules and laws that lawyers must abide by are not determined by the city; the state and bar can punish Krasner for violating them, and they should. It's likely that a "soft-on-crime" prosecutor, if elected, can use his prosecutorial discretion not to prosecute criminals, with voters deciding whether they like his policies.
But that leeway wouldn't extend to this kind of behavior, which violated legal ethics and the law. When a court says "lack of candor," that is another way of saying "lies."
This case magnifies the broader fallacy of the social justice prosecutor movement. If you’re having to repeatedly lie and misrepresent to a court in order to free murderers from jail it’s a clear sign that there aren’t that many innocent people in jail.
— Abhi Kambli (@AbhiKambli1984) June 17, 2026
Any sane person would move as far away as possible from a city with a soft-on-crime prosecutor. And any state that catches a District Attorney lying should throw the book at them. You can't easily remedy the former without an electoral victory, but you can remedy the latter with a tough-on-Soros prosecutor state.
The finding that Krasner lied to the court should lead to his disbarment. I doubt it will.
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