Post by Logan on Mar 5, 2016 6:17:36 GMT -6
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane asked Friday that a judge from outside Montgomery County be appointed to preside over her criminal trial there, saying the entire county bench could be biased against her.
Her lawyers argued that the judge assigned to the case, Wendy Demchick-Alloy, as well as the other judges in the county, were too close to three county judges who the attorneys said are plainly hostile to Kane.
Those judges, the lawyers said, are William Carpenter, Carolyn Carluccio, and Risa Vetri Ferman.
As Kane's filing noted, Carpenter launched the investigation into a leak of grand jury information that led to Kane's arrest; Carluccio is married to lawyer Thomas Carluccio, whom Carpenter named as a special prosecutor to lead the leak probe; and Ferman, who began serving as a judge in January, was the district attorney who built upon Thomas Carluccio's work, which led to Kane's being charged last year.
Kane's lawyers said there would be "no public faith in a fair and impartial outcome" if any of the 22 judges on the county bench presided over her trial.
Read more: www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20160305_Kane_s_lawyers__The_A_G__can_t_get_a_fair_trial_in_Montgomery_County.html
Her lawyers argued that the judge assigned to the case, Wendy Demchick-Alloy, as well as the other judges in the county, were too close to three county judges who the attorneys said are plainly hostile to Kane.
Those judges, the lawyers said, are William Carpenter, Carolyn Carluccio, and Risa Vetri Ferman.
As Kane's filing noted, Carpenter launched the investigation into a leak of grand jury information that led to Kane's arrest; Carluccio is married to lawyer Thomas Carluccio, whom Carpenter named as a special prosecutor to lead the leak probe; and Ferman, who began serving as a judge in January, was the district attorney who built upon Thomas Carluccio's work, which led to Kane's being charged last year.
Kane's lawyers said there would be "no public faith in a fair and impartial outcome" if any of the 22 judges on the county bench presided over her trial.
Read more: www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/20160305_Kane_s_lawyers__The_A_G__can_t_get_a_fair_trial_in_Montgomery_County.html