HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS EDITORIAL: …Letting judges appoint prosecutors does seem to contradict the separation of powers that generally applies in the American system of criminal justice. Judges typically judge cases, not initiate them.
The common pleas court judge who appointed the special prosecutor working on Kane’s case is the judge who oversees the statewide investigating grand jury. He says his authority to appoint the prosecutor comes from case law that has emerged through judicial rulings over time, not a clear directive written in state statutes… (more)
The Republicans are still all butt-hurt that Kane found their taxpayer funded porno stashes so they hire their own sheriff to prosecute the real sheriff. Pennsylvania judiciary must think we live in the Old West.