LEGAL INTELLIGENCER: In an admittedly ironic twist, Attorney General Kathleen Kane moved Friday for a hearing in her criminal case to determine whether the prosecutors charging her leaked evidence to the press that she said could represent prosecutorial misconduct.
Kane requested an evidentiary hearing to establish whether a member of the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office released information to a reporter on a series of telephone recordings that figure to be a key portion of the prosecution’s case. Kane has been charged with perjury and related offenses for allegedly leaking grand-jury information. Trial is set for Aug. 8 in Montgomery County.
In a 12-page motion, Kane said Friday that her prosecutors were one of only three parties with custody of the recordings—and the only one with a motive to release them. If a hearing were to determine that prosecutorial misconduct occurred, she said, she would reserve the right to move for a change of venue, a disqualification of the District Attorney’s Office, suppression of the evidence and to have the charges tossed in their entirety… (more)
