Post by Logan on Jan 8, 2017 19:03:15 GMT -6
PHILADELPHIA — Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane says her nine-count perjury and obstruction conviction should be overturned because of trial errors and overlapping charges.
Kane has been sentenced to 10 to 23 months in jail but remains free while she appeals the August conviction.
Her lawyer in a filing Tuesday challenges the use of a special prosecutor to investigate the leak of grand jury material. The jury found that Kane orchestrated the leak to embarrass a rival.
The defense calls the charges redundant and says Kane should have been able to introduce evidence about the pornography she found in state email accounts.
Read more: www.post-gazette.com/news/state/2017/01/04/Ex-Pennsylvania-attorney-general-Kathleen-Kane-fights-conviction-over-leaked-grand-jury-testimony/stories/201701040198
Kane has been sentenced to 10 to 23 months in jail but remains free while she appeals the August conviction.
Her lawyer in a filing Tuesday challenges the use of a special prosecutor to investigate the leak of grand jury material. The jury found that Kane orchestrated the leak to embarrass a rival.
The defense calls the charges redundant and says Kane should have been able to introduce evidence about the pornography she found in state email accounts.
Read more: www.post-gazette.com/news/state/2017/01/04/Ex-Pennsylvania-attorney-general-Kathleen-Kane-fights-conviction-over-leaked-grand-jury-testimony/stories/201701040198