PHILLY.COM: …The defense lawyer for State Rep. Louise Williams Bishop, a Philadelphia legislator arrested in the sting corruption case, is seeking to have the charges against her dismissed, saying she was targeted for prosecution because she is African American…
“The elected attorney general of this Commonwealth declined to prosecute this matter,” lawyer A. Charles Peruto Jr. wrote in a legal brief filed this month.
Peruto noted that Kane, in defending her decision to not pursue the sting, said the lead investigator in the case had said he had been directed to target blacks… (more)
EDITOR: When Attorney General Kane declined to prosecute these cases because she discovered that the investigation was tainted by prejudice and thus concluded they would not hold up in court, the Philadelphia Inquirer pilloried her. It was one of the first shot in the newspapers’ ongoing attacks on Kane.
A question: What will they have to say if this case goes to court and the accused are acquitted for the reasons that Kane cited?
The answer: They will play that down and emphasize the other accusations that the Inquirer / Daily News have trumped up at best or otherwise petty errors blown up out of all proportion.
Maybe good for circulation, maybe. But terrible for the state.
